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Tired of your computer taking 10 minutes to boot

Posted by geeknews at 11:48 PM on February 4, 2004

If you have a computer that is being slow to boot you may want to check out. Startup-Mechanic. Come highly recommended from a friend to mine. Let me know what you think. [www.startupmechanic.com]

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3 Comments

  1. From craig at 6:13 am on February 5, 2004

    what about using bootvis or just editing the startup list in msconfig? Or in the registry at hkey_local_machine (and hkey_current_user)\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run (and runonce). this program also misidentified an “ok” program (ctfmon – more info here – http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282599 ) as harmful spyware from CoolWebSearch, when it is not.

  2. From YardBoy at 2:58 pm on February 5, 2004

    Gave it a try (after scanning the download for virus) and the app wants me to disable “mcafeeupdaterui” which it associates as “eUniverse KeenValue parasite related”. I run McAfee and suspect mis-identification so I researched. I have none of the Registry Keys, Processes, System Folders or files referenced to the parasite. Nonetheless, I’ve disabled, but I’ll be watching my McAfee Update closely. After rebooting my Win2K, I saw no performance improvement.

  3. From arthur at 4:38 pm on February 6, 2004

    10 miuntes for a pc to startup …lol
    spybot in advanced mode will sort out your startup list if your too lazy to do it manualy in start>run MSCONFIG