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Slow Boot? Clean Up Your Windows startup processes
Windows will start various programs upon startup; this is both agood and bad feature. The good: this allows Windows to loadprograms like your antivirus, firewall, etc that are necessary toyour security. The bad: often programs are added to the startupprocess without your knowledge or consent and most of these arenot necessary and many are irritating or even malware. Havingmany programs running on startup results in a very slow startupand once loaded they hog resources slowing your PC down.In order to resolve this, you need to optimize your startup processby removing unnecessary and unwanted programs from yourstartup and protect your startup processes by locking themagainst unknown changes. Control your Windows startupprocesses and you can decrease the length of time your PC takesto load and increase the resources available to the programs youare using and even stop some malware.With the right tools, even a user without much computerknowledge, can easily control the Windows startup processes. Agood startup management program like
enables you to control your startup processes. With a simple click
of the consult button
provides you withinformation as to what the items are and if they are required ornot and gives you simple enabling/disabling of these programs. If
does not know the particular items in yourstartup processes it has an easy link to look up the item onGoogle. There are many stand alone tools that will help you to controlwhat is allowed to modify your startup processes and lots of security tools have this feature built in. Two of the security tools Irecommend have feature that lock the registry and startupprocesses against any unauthorized changes.
has its “Tea Timer” works great as a tool, but itspopup is sometimes awkward to deal with.
has its “Defense +” feature which does a great job andis easier to work with. It will first check any changes against itsever growing database and then ask; supplying the information itdoes know. Once it “learns” enough for your setup the questionsoccur less often. It also has many other great security featuresbut this is about your startup processes so I will not get into thefirewall features here.
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