Little Miss Techie

Wow !!! Thank you so much everyone, your sound help, advice and experience here is very appreciated. I am not going to have much of a chance to follow any of this up until next week, but I just wanted to thank you all for taking the time to reply and offer suggestions. Cheers and have a great day, Little Miss Techie ?aka Dawn

Disk4mat and CTskifreak, Thank you both so much your help here is very appreciated. Many thanks once again to all. Cheers and have a nice day Little Miss Techie ?aka Dawn

Thank you so much, it is lovely to be welcomed to such a friendly and helpful forum. We are about to come into our Winter soon also and I am not looking forward to it. I just love the Summers here. I did have 'Belarc Advisor' but thank you, it is a great little program to use. I mainly use an external hard drive and numerous memory sticks, hence I have a lot of free space. I have found using those, along with a regular maintenance program is what works best for my needs. I do have dial up, but it is very quick and is as fast as most broadband in my area. Not that broadband in the country/rural area is fast anyway........lol I hope I have supplied all the info you require below. Operating System System Model Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Acer Aspire SA10 Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.80 gigahertz Intel Celeron 16 kilobyte primary memory cache 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD R01-C1 02/23/2005 Drives Memory Modules c,d 80.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 66.83 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] ST380011A [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 4JV4HJS3, rev 8.01, SMART Status: Healthy 224 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'A0' is Empty Slot 'A1' has 256 MB Slot 'A2' is Empty Slot 'A3' is Empty Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0) 80.02 GB 66.83 GB free Cheers Little Miss Techie ?aka Dawn

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone could tell me something about programs on start up please. I am very new using this program and so far so good.(fingers crossed) When I ran the Startup option obviously it generated a list.(image below) My question please is, can any of these entries be removed to make my startup faster? Currently it seems to take a long time to do a startup from a cold reboot or even just a restart. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Cheers and have a nice day Little Miss Techie ... aka Dawn There is no shame in not knowing, the shame lies in not finding out. (Old Danish Proverb)