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[martial]

Sorry, i am french and I don't speak well your old manner french called "english" ...
Very often it is difficult to understand what are the programs running at start because their names have not clear meaning for the user.
is it possible to add a column with "comments" ?
These programs are slowing the startup and most of times they are never used .So its a good idea to deactivate them if you know what you are doing ...

[YoKenny]

Welcome martial and Bonjour

I like WinPatrol that provides information on programs running at start plus a lot of other information and real-time protection:
http://www.winpatrol.com <== choose the French Setup

I like it so much that I purchased the PLUS upgrade.
http://www.winpatrol...plus.html?index <== feature comparison

[DennisD]

Hi martial, and welcome from me too.

A reasonable guide to unneeded items in your startup is the following freeware application.

StartUpLite: (Malwarebytes)

Bear in mind this is a guide only. I would suggest using CCleaner\Tools\Startup to "disable" startup items you know you don't need, and any you're not sure of, do a google search for them as there's plenty of info out there. And then disable one at a time, and if all runs fine, disable others.

If you have any problem afterwards, simply enable an item again with CCleaner.

Don't delete any items as you won't be able to enable them again.

And if you haven't already, have a read of the CCleaner guide. There's a link to it in my signature.

[martial]

Malwarebyte is fantastic : it found 5 malwares on my machine ! Thank you very much, merci ++ comme on dit chez nous .

Winpatrol is very interesting but big, very big, too big for me. I am going to explore it but I knew something looking like this called "SIW". Piriform products are more simple and easy to use. Thank you Yokenny I love Canada "souviens toi"

[YoKenny]

martial, on Dec 22 2008, 02:07 PM, said:

Malwarebyte is fantastic : it found 5 malwares on my machine ! Thank you very much, merci ++ comme on dit chez nous .

It is a good application and updated several times a day.

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Winpatrol is very interesting but big, very big, too big for me. I am going to explore it but I knew something looking like this called "SIW".

SIW is twice as big as WinPatrol

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Piriform products are more simple and easy to use. Thank you Yokenny I love Canada "souviens toi"

They are that.

[DennisD]

Martial, I don't want to be the bearer of "bad tidings" at this time of the year, but if Malwarebytes found 5 malware items on your pc, there could well be more that haven't been picked up.

I would strongly recommend following the advice at this link, to ensure your PC is actually malware free. It won't hurt to check it out just to be sure.

http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=17457

You'll notice if you follow this procedure that more than one program is used to scan your PC, Malwarebytes application being one of them.