I won’t go through here which services you can disable, because that depends on your needs.

And the services are easy to start if required. As a result, the number of running processes after starting Windows, decreased from about 18 to 13! Sure, I’ve lost some functionality due to this, but only functionality I don’t use. Not long ago I had about 40 services starting with Windows (if you haven’t ever touched them, you may have 45-50). You’ll find them in start menu / Accessories / Administrative Tools. Windows loads not only unnecessary programs (let’s not blame Windows for this, but the programs), but also services. In my case, I only have one single startup entry: Comodo Firewall Pro.

You have to determine yourself what to remove/disable. If you wish to not only disable the startup, but also delete it, I recommend CCleaner. You may be unsure in many cases what the startup program actually does, if so, search on Google to find out whether you can disable it.

On the tab Startup, you can disable programs from loading. To easily edit what Windows loads, go to Run from the start menu and type msconfig. There are many programs to edit which applications that load with Windows. Do you have many tray icons in the lower right? They all correspond to a resource demanding function, and I bet you can get rid of many of them. I began by having as few startup entries as possible programs that load with Windows. View your processes in Windows Task Manager, or why not, CFP Active Process List. Here’s what I’ve done, on Windows XP (don’t feel delimited to XP, you can bring up other OS’ as well): Let’s collect our tips & tricks here, for both newbies and more advanced users! Many of us can learn how to speed up the system without upgrading the hardware. I can’t really recall any specific thread for this topic, just hundreds (or thousands) of posts in miscellaneous threads.

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