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  • March 2, 2008 - 6:59am

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So, I've been pratting around with the stuff installed on my rig, and I've come to the conclusion that I really fucking hate these obnoxious programs that decide to add themselves to the startup HKEY's to make it easier for you, and then when you tell it to stop doing so via the program, it just leaves itself in the startup group, even though it tells you that it hasn't.

Chief offenders so far seem to be Skype, MSN, Steam, xFire, and Blackhawk (My soundcards GUI that doesn't need to be loaded for the damned thing to work). Oh, and ATi's CCC. Like hell does that need to load on startup :/

I'm really irritable today :(

 
 
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    ɤArchaicStigma

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    OMG I know what you mean, I've gone through this same thing so now I never turn my computer off really I just hibernate fixed the problem <.< starts up like 10 times faster!

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    03.02.08 6:06 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      I like rebooting, though :B
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      03.02.08 11:17 am
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    ɤkyle

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    start -> run -> 'msconfig' FTW!
    03.02.08 9:43 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Damn skippy. System configuration is the top of my 'recently used' programs list >.>
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      03.02.08 11:05 am
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    ʊchalkley3

    I go where I please, and I please where I go

    MS Config FTW. Oh yeah though, especially those programs that have options that just turn the systray icon off and still leave the service running. Bastards.
    03.02.08 11:06 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Eugh, yeah.

      Norton is a fucker for that kinda crap. It even hides itself from MSConfig :/
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      03.02.08 11:16 am
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        ӝrotane

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        Norton might just be a system service. Winkey+R > services.msc and kill it there.
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        03.02.08 11:25 am
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Since it's work computers, I found a better way. Norton Removal Tool. Accidentally lost all that crap with 'Norton' in the name >.>
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          03.02.08 11:29 am
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        ʊchalkley3

        I go where I please, and I please where I go

        Norton is a fucker. Nuff said.
        03.02.08 11:27 am
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          True that.
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          03.02.08 11:29 am
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    ѻyashachan

    Never Played Half-Life

    I need to cut down what loads when my computer boots. It takes it too long to load everything when I login. And I can't hibernate it all the time because Firefox and Visual Studio stop playing nice with each other.
    03.02.08 3:44 pm
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      I get pissed off when stuff loads at startup :(

      Literally, all I have load at startup is AVG.
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      03.02.08 8:08 pm
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        ѻyashachan

        Never Played Half-Life

        That's pretty much what I want to pare it down to. I don't like that the Adobe image transfer program loads, or HotSync (syncing thing for my Palm Z22). I think I want to keep letting SpyBotS&D load at start up 'cause I'd forget to run it otherwise.
        03.02.08 8:17 pm
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          S&D is hardly a monsterous startup either :B
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          03.02.08 8:21 pm
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            ѻyashachan

            Never Played Half-Life

            Yeah. I also always forget it's running unless I'm trying to install something and it asks me about changing a reg entry.
            03.02.08 8:32 pm
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              ӝNirach

              Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

              Craazy :p

              Always know what you're runing!
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              03.02.08 8:38 pm
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    03.02.08 5:58 pm
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      That emote is so confusing.

      It looks like there is some kind of suck job happening >.>
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      03.02.08 8:14 pm
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        I go where I please, and I please where I go

        I think that might be the point.
        03.03.08 3:17 am
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Oh good, so long as I'm not going insane.
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          03.03.08 7:26 am
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    ɤHoobatsch

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    PsTools is my favourite. Im all about finding te little suckers and killing them off. Its a barbaric approach, but what can I say. I r teh pwnerator of processes.
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    03.02.08 6:25 pm
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      I must confess, I've not heard of this PsTools. I typically use Startup CPL by Mike Lin, because you can run it without installing it :B
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      03.02.08 7:42 pm
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    Personally, I think the main reason you're irritable is because you're listening to Avril Lavigne. But, that's just my theory.
    03.03.08 4:05 pm
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      I was irritable before that, though :(
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      03.03.08 4:15 pm
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        Oh, so just fanning the flames then?
        03.03.08 4:19 pm
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Yeah, something like that :B
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          03.03.08 4:39 pm
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