Buying New PC, Need some help

[fox099]

Also, get rid of Norton. It is a resource hog. I use Avira antivirus, which is relatively small and runs very well. And make sure MatLab isnt running, you know as well as I that it can bring pain to even the best of machines.

[Zer]

okay. I went to start and typed msconfig. There are the items that were checked on the start-up tab.

ehtray
RTHDCPL
Iaanotif
NvCpl
nwiz
DMAScheduler
RECGUARD
ccApp
osCheck
HPBootOp
HPwuSchd2
jusched
qttask
ItunesHelper
CTSyncU
AdobeUpdateManger
Adobe Reader Speed Launch
Extender Resource Monitor
HP Digital Imaging Monitor
Microsoft Office



Can anyone provide suggestions as to what items I could uncheck? There were also two items checked which did not say what they were under the heading "startup Item" I will still be getting a new computer soon so any additional suggestions are appreciated regarding that subject to.

Thanks again for all the help.

You've got a pretty good system, no doubt it's the start up stuff slowing you down. Off the top of my head, you should be able to deselect jusched, qqtask, ItunesHelper, AdobeUpdateManager, Adobe Reader Speed Launch, and HP Digital Imaging Monitor should be safe too. As for the rest, could you upload a screenshot of the msconfig page so I can see a bit more info? If not, then just deselect one, reboot, and if nothing's wrong, go onto the next until it's all down. Really, there's not much that should be in startup (for me, it's just Steam and Utorrent, and some ATI driver stuff), and it shouldn't mess any thing up. And, those upper ones look suspicious...

And yeah, get something other than Norton. I use AVG, but just about any one will work at least as well. And don't forget about spyware, which tends to be slimmer than a virus but can build up. Your best free choices are Spybot S&D, or Adaware.

And if you want to go further, download CCleaner and run it. It'll get rid of a lot of junk files (make sure it doesn't erase browser stuff, though), and it might make it faster too.

After all that, it should boot in rather quickly, and the only other way to speed it up that comes to mind would be to mess around in the BIOS, which would probably only shave off 3 or 5 seconds anyway.

[coloradog1]

I noticed there are multiple versions of AVG of which only one is free. Is everyone referring to the free version?

Thanks

[HoboJoe]

Yes...why buy it when you can get if for free =P