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MSCONFIG (when used with the RUN command) opens up the System Configuration Utility. Most of the stuff in there you don't want to mess with unless you know what you are doing or have detailed instructions.

Click the STARTUP tab. The list that it pulls up is everything that you can choose to start up when Windows does.

Why is all of this stuff in the list? Because every program designer thinks his 'creation' is so indispensible that no one could possibly want it to NOT start up with their computer (yeah, right), so they set it into the list and have it to do just that.


Once you're at the list, look it over and see what all has a check mark. Every program that does starts up when Windows loads... EVERYTIME!

If something is checked, but you don't know what it is, Google it and find out.

Once you have seen what is there, uncheck everything that you don't need or want. Keep your firewall, antivirus, broadband drivers, graphics drivers, whatever you absolutely have to have, but uncheck everythign else.

Once you are done, click APPLY, OK, then reboot.

When your computer starts up, you'll get a grey box about the System Configuration Utility. Check the box about 'Don't run on startup' then OK.

If you had a lot of stuff checked, then your comp ought to start up faster and run more stable.

Second-
Download and run AdAware, Spybot, and possibly Microsoft AntiSpyware.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Ad-Aware_SE_Personal_d506.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/SpyBot-Search_&_Destroy_d2471.html
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
(All are free. Be sure to have each one update itself before you scan.)

Third-
Uninstall any unused or unnedded programs you have on your hard drive.

Fourth-
Download and run TweakNow to clean up your computer's registry.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/TweakNow_RegCleaner_d4134.html

Fifth-
Run Disk Defragmenter START- ALL PROGRAMS- ACCESSORIES- SYSTEM TOOLS- DISK DEFRAGMENTER).

Reboot your computer and see if it cranks up a bit faster, plus it ought to have a lot more zip to it as well.
 
Hi BlkShdw88,
Hi buddy, its the same model. Well I did disable some background processes, but it did not help. And regarding my windows XP, it is a real copy, and it is not an upgrade from 98.

When burning it just hangs and does not get back the control. Anyways, you have already helped me lot. Thanks.

Regards,

PUNK
 
Thanks for your help

Hi Trotter,
That was very descriptive. Thanks. I did as you said, and I didnt get that problem since then. I need to check if the problem repeats later on. Just one more thing, I tried insatlling norton utilities on my system, its NDD and speed disk would not run on my system because it says that there is a background process running which prevents it from running. Does'nt XP support Norton utilities or am I doing something wrong. Plz let me know.

Regards,

PUNK
 
Hi,
I have read that DVD's can store close to 8.7 Gb data, but I get an option to store only 4.5Gb. Can you plz explain where I am going wrong.

PUNK
 
wel the 4.38GB is for single layer dvds (what you are using) and you can store up to 7.95GB on dual layer dvds but they are really expensive and slow to write on compared to single layer (8x compared to 16x)

oh and btw the options say 4.5gb and 8.5gb because they are assuming that gigabytes are 1,000,000,000 Bytes when they are really 1024^3 = 1,073,741,824 Bytes
 
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