gHacks technology news » startup delayer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Delay Windows Startup to Speed Up Startup http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/12/delay-windows-startup-to-speed-up-startup/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/12/delay-windows-startup-to-speed-up-startup/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:37:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/12/delay-windows-startup-to-speed-up-startup/ I was first puzzled by this as well. How can I speed up things if I delay them ? Let me give you a good example. If you ever tried unpack or pack two archives at once you noticed that it takes considerably more time than performing the operations one after the other.

The same principle can be applied to Windows startups. A lot of softwares try to load during startup: Firewalls, Antivirus scanners, Office indexing and hundreds of others all load at the same time because Windows has no way of prioritizing startups.

Enter Startup Delayer. What this software does is to list all applications that are started when Windows starts. You can then delay the startup of applications that are not system critical. I would for instance instantly start my security applications but delay the start of lesser important programs such as Office, iTunes and other applications of that kind.

I try to keep my startup list as clean as possible and only load Antivir at startup which means that I do not have to use this on my desktop PC. A friend of mine however who likes Norton, Office and all those major bloated applications is using Startup Delayer successfully for some time now.

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