DISQUS

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I recently bought an HP Laptop with Vista preinstalled on the machine. I got the laptop for college as well as to play Online games when I'm at the dorm. But when i run World of WarCraft it goes pretty slow and I was thinking before I buy/tamper with the computer parts I should turn off all unwanted startup/background running programs.

So I found your post on google after i tried running "Mike Lin's" Startup Control Panel (Doesn't work with Vista). So now for the question: Your method only allows me to remove/disable certain programs and they are mainly the ones that i NEED to be running. Do you know any programs or any way to bypass the startup of iTunes and such programs because it doesn't give me the option for them.

Is their any thing I can do with this system so that the response time is faster for better gaming?

Laptop Model:
- HP Pavilion dv6000 (RV009UA#ABA)
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 1.80 GHz
Memory (RAM): 958 MB
System Type: 32-bit Operating System

Graphics Card Information:
- NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
Driver Version: 7.15.10.9746

*Laptop has all current Vista Updates!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I am encountering a similar problem. I have a Sony Vaio running Vista with all updates installed. There are certain programs in my startup menu - iTunes, Quicktime and my TomTom software - which I cannot disable. They are listed in StartUp programs, but the buttons aren't enabled to disable them - if that makes sense!!

viz · 1 year ago

you need to run as administrator