Every time when my laptop is logged on after boot-up, with minimum memory which is 256M, the laptop will keep swirling in the background and slowing down the foreground work, that is very unresponsive to my request. Using autoruns program, I can see a lot of programs starting at boot-up or user-logon. These are not shown up on msconfig. I guess that’s what it is doing, starting all those programs even though they are not needed immediately at the cost of user inconvenience. Why don’t they get started later if they have to be started as soon as possible. I venture to disable some programs starting at boot-up or log-on but the performance is still far from being satisfactory.. I am not too sure of a lot of them. Is there somewhere I can check what programs I can disable on boot-up or log-on. Is there any other way to improve the performance. I just reinstalled this laptop not long ago due to virus attack. After some programs had been installed the laptop started to slow down when logged on. I don’t think there is virus issue at this early stage.
I always have the indexing service disabled. All those applications even though they are supposed to run in the background but they still render the computer unresponsive. I downloaded and install the Windows Search 4 on my XP laptop today. I found it made the laptop worse. The laptop just kept swirling away telling me it was indexing even though I checked that the indexing service was still not started. When I removed windows search 4 it said it was stopping service. I wondered what service it was stopping if it was not indexing service.
I always have automatic update of anything disabled but have update done at the time I want. I have recently updated Java runtime. It would not let me disable the automatic update even it allowed me to uncheck the update box and press OK. When I bring it up again the update box is still checked.
