Q: How do you turn off the start in safe mode only tab in msconfig when Windows will not start up?
Q: A couple of weeks ago, I had something odd pop up on my screen at re-start. A dialog box that reads: “Windows Essencials (sic) Media Codecs Update Service” then proceeds to list a laundry list of codecs with misspellings such as “AVI Splitrer”. When “X” off the box, it pops up “Are you sure?” Have I got something nasty that is going to get nastier if someone inadvertently clicks to install when I don’t happen to be in front of it (read: wife, child)?
Read Answer HereQ: Running Compaq Presario SR1010NX 769 MB DDR SDRAM 40 GB hard drive. The last two days, I have gotten a “low virtual memory” message 3 times while using internet explorer. I think I have too much stuff running on my computer (that I don’t use or need). When I type in MSCONFIG, and startup, I see the following checked:
ps2
KBD
hisser
hkcmd
qttask
ALCXMNTR.EXE (pretty sure that’s an old dial up modem I have DSL now)
LTMSG
jusched
ccApp
osCheck
realsched
Reader_sl
ctfmon
Event Planner Rem
which of these can I uncheck?
On the MSCONFIG services tab, I see a whole boat load of stuff running that I know I don’t use, like cryptographic services, error reporting, remote registry etc. etc. etc. Can anything be done to turn these off?
Any help/advise on the low virtual memory thing would be really appreciated.
Q: Why does my laptop take so long to boot up? It takes about 5 minutes to boot from switching on!
A: Typically when you encounter a slow boot up time it is a result of there being to many items in your startup folder. When you install a program most of them have the option selected to start at boot up by default and if you do not unselect that option you will begin to accumulate a large number of software programs that launch when the machine boots up thus causing a serious delay in the amount of time it takes to boot up.
I would recommend that you look at your Startup folder, which can be found by going to Start -> All Programs. From here you can right click on each program and select delete. This will not delete the program itself but will stop the program from running at startup and that should help significantly in the performance of your machine.
For more detailed information we suggestion reading How To Stop Programs From Starting Automatically In Windows as it gives a few other options on how to stop these programs from starting as well.
