programs in the background?

Question

i am now useing my husbands computer and he has a lot of unnessary programs on here... i don't want to delete them because they are not my programs but they are makeing the computer run REALLY slow... is there a way to have them there but not running in the background?? i have a sony vaio 2002 xp... so if there is anyone that can help i would really be gratiful... thanks

Answer 1

You don't have to delete any programs, just remove them from the Startup menu.
click Start
click Settings
click Taskbar and Start menu
click the Start Menu Programs tab
click Remove
Now, click the program you want to remove, then click Remove

The next time you want to use one of these programs, it will just take a minute or two to load it, but if you don't use it every day, it will be worth it to increase your speed.

There are other things you can do to increase speed:

- Are you using a complex screensaver - it runs in the background and eats memory. I had fun with mine, then changed it to blank.

1. From IE, click Tools, Internet Options
delete cookies
delete files (offline files)
clear history (set days to save to 0 if you want)
click o.k., and Restart
2. click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools – run Disk Cleanup
3. Temporarily close Quick Launch:
Right-click on the Taskbar, click Toolbars, deselect Quick Launch
4. Open My Computer
right-click on C:
click Properties
click Tools, select Error Check (check all and fix), when finished click defrag & run.
5. click Start, Run ipconfig renew (type ipconfig space renew)
6. Restart. Right-click on Taskbar, click Toolbars, select Quick Launch to restore

All these things should be done regularly. The more frequently they are run, the less time they take.
- Note: Games and videos are mostly graphics. Graphics create large files and consume memory.

Answer 2

yeah, hit ctrl + alt + delete on the desktop. then in the tabs, click processes. Then they are on there by name size etc. Sort them by size and then you can hit end process at the bottom to stop the process(program) from running. A message will pop-up just hit ok. Getting rid of the unnecessary large ones will help a lot.

Answer 3

best way go to run in start menu then type:

msconfig

go to startup tab then uncheck all programs u don't want to run at startup then anytime u can check it again and all thing will back