Do you know msconfig.exe?
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Do you know that feeling which arises when waiting for a windows machine to come up? It gets slower and slower over lifetime. There are a lot of reasons for this behaviour. Besides heavy diskfragmentation, which I feel not really responsible for, some of the slowdown is caused by installing and deinstalling smaller and larger bits of software all the time. Although workstation virtualization was a real blessing for guys like me, because I can do most of the testinstallations in vms now, there is a lot of crap left on my production laptop. Think of all the more or less small tools around the gadgets you can stick to an usb port or connect via bluetooth these days. Sometimes I am really shocked when opening my taskmanager to see that there is a big load of software already in memory after system startup. You know, I have to have some space left for my tiny Notes standard client. Perhaps this is an embarrassing outing now, but I found msconfig.exe today for the first time, which seems to be really nice to control all the stuff which comes up automatically during startup. To be honest... I found it on a Vista client which I fought today. So, if you are in the same situation ... give it a try....
Do you know that feeling which arises when waiting for a windows machine to come up? It gets slower and slower over lifetime. There are a lot of reasons for this behaviour. Besides heavy diskfragmentation, which I feel not really responsible for, some of the slowdown is caused by installing and deinstalling smaller and larger bits of software all the time. Although workstation virtualization was a real blessing for guys like me, because I can do most of the testinstallations in vms now, there is a lot of crap left on my production laptop. Think of all the more or less small tools around the gadgets you can stick to an usb port or connect via bluetooth these days. Sometimes I am really shocked when opening my taskmanager to see that there is a big load of software already in memory after system startup. You know, I have to have some space left for my tiny Notes standard client. Perhaps this is an embarrassing outing now, but I found msconfig.exe today for the first time, which seems to be really nice to control all the stuff which comes up automatically during startup. To be honest... I found it on a Vista client which I fought today. So, if you are in the same situation ... give it a try....
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