Originally Posted by
WE Branch Fanatic
Goto START, RUN, type in MSCONFIG. Click the Startup tab. You are safe to uncheck everything in there. Hit OK to apply and reboot. It'll give you a message about selective startup. Check the box to not show that again and hit OK.
From the above link.
So what happens them? Start up............then what? What really critical things must start up?
I can confirm this definitely helps. I have had slow boot up problems for a while. I think an HP printer contributes (see also
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=222263 ). I just bought a HP Photosmart 8050. You can't NOT install the HP Image Zone Software (~250MB) or the scanner doesn't work. Doing what WE Branch Fanatic suggests unchecks this, and since then, it's been a lot quicker. I've just updated Mcafee and the new version seems to do a scan everytime I switch on. Is this really nescessary, as it is guarding against Viruses when it is on anyway, and can this automatic scan be disabled? I haven't been able to find a way so far.