After a few months of use I find that my computers always start to crawl at startup. I find this really irritating and my sony vaio is particularly problematic as there are hundreds of programs running at any one time.
MSCONFIG is a useful tool for clearing up unnecessary utilities from the startup but it can be difficult to determine which are the essential programs and which are those you can happily get rid of.
I found a couple of useful sites today:
The first one explains how to use MSCONFIG
and the second provides a tremendous searchable database of what all those programs are, and whether they are useful or not.
