Make your Windows XP computer run like new

[SuperSparks]

The thread title says it all really.

Restore your computer's performance with Windows XP

[liam858]

Nice link, a lot of basic stuff, but put them all together and you have yourself a smooth running machine



Liam

[shiva_42]

Anybody know what happened to BlackViper? www.blackviper.com

[fink]

I asked about that a little while ago. Apparently his site has been sold to Network Solutions..

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=189016

[liam858]

Shiva: http://dhost.info/kyeu/mirror/blackviper/ <<<<info and also the Majorgeeks mirror: http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12



Liam

[shiva_42]

Thanks liam. That's too bad. I understand how he felt, but I miss his insight. Hope we see him active again someday.

[steve_83]

I was surfing around the site today & ran across this sticky, hoping it would help me fix a dern HP printer program that has to be shutdown manually when I reboot.

Well: It didn't help me there, but I did run across 2) un-named programs running in:
One in -> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Micro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion......
The other --< HKCU\SOFTWARE\Micro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion......

How do I tell what the heck these are anyway??

Steve

[shiva_42]

I was surfing around the site today & ran across this sticky, hoping it would help me fix a dern HP printer program that has to be shutdown manually when I reboot.

Well: It didn't help me there, but I did run across 2) un-named programs running in:
One in -> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Micro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion......
The other --< HKCU\SOFTWARE\Micro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion......

How do I tell what the heck these are anyway??

Steve

You can start by posting the actual data, instead of just referring to it in passing... It's pretty hard to help until we know the details of the question!

[steve_83]

Thanks Shiva.
How would I do that in msconfig, if it's un-named, no location, etc.

Doesn't look like I can option click it to get any properties, and in my Program list: there's nothing I don't recognize.

Steve

[George Rusling]

What you're posting is a reference to your registry. If you extend and expand you'll probably find it ends with \run. To the left of that entry, on the same line in msconfig you'll see what you're telling the registry to run.

If you don't recognize whatever it is, don't need it or if there's nothing there, uncheck the box on the far left and reboot your machine, then see if you're missing anything of value. Eliminating anything in that startup section will not shut your machine down...