I noticed that my computer was starting up slow.. SUPER slow! I ignored it for a long time… months. But I noticed each time I added new software, the system started up slower and slower.
Why your computer starts up slow? These days when you install new software, its default setting is “autorun” which means, it is set up to start when your computer starts. So if you notice 30 different applications are popping up when you boot up your system, that is why the system is slow. Its starting each app.
If you computer starts up slow, here is how you can get it much faster.
slow computer start use msconfig.exe
computer starts up slow – MSCONFIG
The first place to check out for slow reboots, is msconfig.
Go to Start | Run | type “msconfig” | Enter
“MSConfig (officially called System Configuration in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 or Microsoft System Configuration Utility in previous operating systems) is a system utility to troubleshoot the Microsoft Windows startup process.”
Once you click Enter you will see the msconfig message box. Once you are in msconfig, select the “Startup” tab and you will see all the software that is set to startup when the system starts up.
computer startup slow msconfig
MSconfig show the root of the problem. I had scores of proprietary applications starting up by default, not to mentions a dozen other applications that I had installed and left default. This is why my system was taking anywhere from 3-5 minutes to be of any use. I would often avoid turning off the system just so I did not have to wait each time for it to boot.. NOW THAT IS LAZY!!
Once in MSconfig, disable the applications you don’t want starting when the computer starts. Once you are complete, click OK.
And you are done.
Here is another place you can check for application startups:
- computer starts up slow Startup
BONUS ROUND!! – Search Conduit – backgroundcontainer RunDLL
I had a pesky “RunDLL” file that kept trying to run when my computer was starting. I did not see it in the Startup folder or in MSConfig. But I noticed that it was from some adware called SearchConduit (my arch nemesis). I had removed it months ago, but it is so aggressive, spammy and similar to malware that it leave hooks in the registry keys.
Here is how I removed it.
computer starts up slow RegEdit FIND RunDLL
You will have to go to regedit – Start | Run | regedit
*I don’t recommend regedit unless you are comfortable with doing complex configurations on your PC.. if you don’t know what your doing, you can destroy you OS in regedit*
Once in regedit, click CTRL+F (find) and search for the key. delete the key. You will need to delete if from the left side of the regedit panel or you will get the error you see displayed.
If you did all of this, you cleared all irrelevant default starts from legit applications and removed any DLLs that are not supposed to be there and you computer is still slow, you may have a completely different issue:
- defrag your hard drive
- Maybe you have malware (i use webroot & spybot search and destroy)
- You have very agressive (hidden) adware (spybot search and destroy.. it works)
- Your computer is too old (try newegg, they have good prices)
- Your computer needs more memory (RAM check Task Manager – check memory usage)
- Your hard drive is jacked up (may hear a crunching or metal on metal sound)
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