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Originally Posted by **********
alot of PC makers such as HP, pile on tons of useless software that load during the boot-up process, making things even worse.
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That's nothing new, I've owned an HP in the past, plus several other makes and models, and even my last custom build came with a bunch of programs pre-enabled. It's easily fixed though, by opening up the sys config utility (start-->'run'--->msconfig-->okay), going to the startup tab, and UNchecking everything listed there. Close, reboot, check the "don't remind me again" box once you're back at the desktop and you're good to go.
Takes less than two minutes.
Of course the odd program might have that annoying "re-enable to start menu" thing, in which case you have to open those particular programs and disable that feature, then repeat the sys config process once again and problem solved --- clean startups.
My thinking is that if I want a program open I'll open it. Otherwise it doesn't need to be running. And there isn't a damn thing in anyone's start menu that NEEDS to be running. If it's something you want running like anti-virus then leave it. Otherwise uncheck everything.
I know there are other reasons to go with a Mac, but that isn't one of them.
