startup programs

Well folks, it's not often you see me start a thread in the support forum. But in my lazy days, I just don't feel like looking around for a solution myself. The problem is a long delay after login. I login, and then it takes 30+ seconds for my PC to be ready to use. The only start-up programs...

I have a new computer less then 24 hours old. It is running win7 x64 home premium. It came , unknown to me with the entire suite of essentials. Now, I use live writer, photo gallery and windows mail on my previous computer and I new to try uninstall from control panel. I did this and the...

I have a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS installed on a machine with 8 GB RAM on a quad core processor. I find one very strange problem very frequently from past few days. The number of start up programs have increased gradually and this means that around 15 to 20 system tray icons appear in...

This is going to take a bit of explanation. So three days ago I installed crysis, i know its been 3 years. That is the last change I made to my system until today. Today, my modem started loosing and gaining connection every 5 min or so. I called up comcast and asked them what to do. The tech...

Whenever I want to drag something across the screen, like moving folders, selecting text, working in photoshop, playing a game, the dragging is not working properly. Sometimes it picks it up after 1 second after holding the button, sometimes it does pick up right away but it breaks after a...

Upgraded from Vista 64-bit to Windows 7 64-bit Home Edition. Google Chrome and Internet Explorer have internet access but pretty much nothing else will connect to the internet. Itunes store, AIM, Trillian, any gaming clients that require patching...etc. My attempts at troubleshooting: I have...

Hi everybody. Before I start, I would like to say that I am not being lazy, I really have tried to solve this problem. I have also searched this and other forums, and though there are several threads about 'the application has stopped working' for specific programs, I can't find any info about...

Hi, I have a Toshiba p205-s6287, intel duo processors, 4gb RAM. I am running Home Premium 64-bit. After doing some minor tweaks, my boot time is ranging between 67 and 87 seconds, as measured by the events view log. I am only running a few programs on startup, ie, carbonite, roboform, MSS...

My friend was having trouble getting WMDC to work on his Mac, so I installed it on my PC (running win7 x64 pro) and let him use it to get what he needed done. Of course, no longer needing the program, I uninstalled it. However, I still noticed a process running at startup under the description...

OS disc drives inaccessible (not solved, but fixed) i have been running windows 7, build 7100, just fine for quite a while on my desktop. i recently restarted my system. upon boot both drives on the disc the os is installed on became completely inaccessible. the os boots fine. the system...

I am using Windows 7 on my laptop, and I generally switch between High Performance (when the power cable is in) and Power Saver (when the power cable is not in). When I switch between power modes, I click the battery icon, and that brings up a list of the available power schemes. However, it...

I am using Vista Home Premium. One of the programs I am using will only open as far as the intital screen and will not go any farther. I have used two Registry fix programs & they didn't help. I also have shut down all programs at startup except the MS programs and that didn't work. What can I...

Sorry if someone has already asked this - can't believe no-one has! - but I've searched the forums and can't find anything... Where is the Software Explorer tool from Windows Defender? Particularly the tool to manage Startup programs? I agree in Vista it was awkwardly positioned since you...