Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 10:54:41 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 13:15:22, Freddie Savage wrote: >I have a Dell Pentium III 1GB with 512MB of RAM. When I boot up my system >resources are at 83% and steadily go lower from that point. I use the selective >startup on the system configuration utility window and have cleared a lot of >items in startup that I feel are unnecessary. > >My question: apart from my anti-hacker software which is zone alarm pro (I have >a cable connection) and my Norton anti-virus what is the minimum amount of items >I can keep in startup? My operating system is Windows Me. > >Thank you for any help. >Freddie. Any badly written driver (printer, modem, cablemodem, etc) can hog system resources, or can use way too much processor time. This especially applies to 'win-printers' and 'win-modems'. Sometimes I wonder if necessity to get a faster comp is simply only remedy for being forced to use crappy software (like 15-threaded instant messanger, or email-notification applet). P.S. My taskbar shows time only. No other auto-loading crap. Do you need that anti-virus running constantly? Just delete the Outlook maybe :) -Andrew-
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