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    Autoruns. What can I turn off ?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hellows, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. hellows

    hellows Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am using a program called Autoruns. Realy good if you want to turn off some of the proccesses.

    There are some programs that I know, like those that I have installed myself

    but what other less known programs/proccesses can I turn off which just slow down my laptop ?

    Some of them got strange names and I have no idea what they do.

    Please list some.
     
    hellows, Jan 9, 2008
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  2. John B

    John B Notebook Prophet

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    Type the name of the processes in Google and you will find a lot of information about each one.
     
    John B, Jan 9, 2008
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  3. crash

    crash NBR Assassin

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    Or, you could provide us with a screenshot of them and we could further assist you. I recommend Googling them also.
     
    crash, Jan 9, 2008
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  4. n0elia

    n0elia Come on Haswell...

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    Yeah post a screenshot and I'm sure we'll be able to help you ;)
     
    n0elia, Jan 9, 2008
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  5. EricinGA

    EricinGA Newbie

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    I am going through the same Autoruns confusion. Here is one screen shot.
     

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  6. Knightendo

    Knightendo Notebook Consultant

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    Turn eveything of except sound card drivers, firewall and antivirues. eveything else needs to be unchecked.
     
    Knightendo, Jul 9, 2008
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  7. swarmer

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    Not in .doc format...
     
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  8. EricinGA

    EricinGA Newbie

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    So almost none of these are needed in autorun?

    Will unchecking them have any affect on the operations of those programs when I do want execute them?
     
    EricinGA, Jul 9, 2008
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  9. EricinGA

    EricinGA Newbie

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    Here's a jpg version of the screenshot.
     

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  10. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Consult the image path in the screenshot. Depends if you need that driver/software/program etc. running or not.
    Counter them with their memory usage in Task Manager and the one's using the most memory, and are of not much use can be disabled.
     
    Andy, Jul 9, 2008
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  11. swarmer

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    It probably doesn't make a huge difference, but I'd personally turn off anything from Apple, Adobe, and Real Networks... and if you don't have any kids, then I think you can turn off the Parental Control thingy. I'd also download a faster PDF reader like FoxIt. (I like to keep Adobe around though, in case FoxIt has trouble with something... but disable the startup process.) Keep the Synaptics stuff or else you'll lose some touchpad features. I don't know about all the other stuff... it kind of depends what you want too. For the Toshiba utilities... you can search Google, ask in the Toshiba forum, or just turn them off and see if you miss anything.
     
    swarmer, Jul 9, 2008
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  12. EricinGA

    EricinGA Newbie

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    I've been turning off items that I could check and be sure of with the Task Manager. I've also been using processlibrary.com to search for files and there descriptions when I wasn't sure. So far I've restarted my computer once and the files I've unchecked have had the affect I hoped for. If I can turn enough off I hope the startup time will shorten.
     
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    I'm going thru the dll files under KnownDlls of Autoruns. I can't find useful info on:
    lpk.dll
    msvcrt.dll
    nsi.dll
    oleaut32.dll
    ole.dll

    Any help on that would be great.
     
    EricinGA, Jul 9, 2008
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