SLOW Startup after login 8204

Hi

My acer 8204 is totally "stock" and it takes maybe 5-10 seconds max to get to the login screen. Then after I type my password, it takes about 3-5 minutes to get everything completely loaded. If I try to even open my Documents during this time, it will freeze completely.

I am willing to lose some of the Acer software if it will increase performance, but I want to make sure Windows has the same or similar utilities that I can use. I would still like the option to change the screen brightness, CPU speed, etc.

After starting up, it flies, everything is amazingly fast. And shutdown is done in under 10 seconds also. I have 69 processes running right now, and the programs using the most under my username besides firefox is MsMpEng.exe and ePower_DMC.exe and ccApp.exe Thanks

 

69 processes??? Wow, that's the most I think i've heard of. I've got 27 running here for comparisons sake.

There are loads of things you can disable in msconfig or services.msc to make it run faster. What I recommend running msconfig, and recording what is running on startup. If you post them here I'm sure some folks here can help you out with what is good and bad.

Personally, I uninstall every piece of Acer software when I got my two laptops. Go into add/remove programs, and get rid of them all. Epower management is a waste of space, you don't need control over the CPU speeds as the processor does that on its own. As for adjusting screen brightness, you can do taht via the keyboard (FN and then the horizontal arrow keys)

 

Haha my friends new Toshiba tecra M4 has 96 running processes

 

But how do I copy all the processes into a post so someone can tell me what is good or not?

 

To give you an idea of what I have gotten rid of, here is a list of disabled programs from my startup on msconfig. I've just given the startup name, i'm not going to include location or command.

ALCMTR
DkIcon
Monitor
HKCMD
igfxpers
igfxtray
IMJPMIG
Alaunch
ImScInst
NeroCheck
TINTSETP
TINTSETP
qttask
RTHDCPL
jusched
Adobe Reader Speed launch
Intervideo WinCInema manager
Microsoft Office.


Of course, you will not have all of these programs installed so they won't appear, but I'm guessing a lot of them will. Also, it is a good idea to stop the program ati2evxx from starting, to do this go to Start>Run> type in Services.msc You will see a program called ATI Hot Key Poller. Double click and then make sure it is set to Disabled. CLick ok and there ya go.

*Disclaimer* All of these things work fine for me, and the vast majority of people out there, but may not for you. I don't go around disabling programs until I've gotten a good idea of what that does. If in doubt type the process name, or the .exe file into google and find out about what it does and if it can be safely stopped. So if in doubt, check first.


EDIT: You posted jsut as i was typing the bulk of this message. Only way to get that info is to type it in manually. As far as I know anyway. Just shrink your windows so you can see what your typing from, whilst you write the message.

 

ok I did CTRL ALT DLT:
From least mem usage to most

System Idle Process
System
SAVScan.exe
smss.exe
AluSchedulerSvc.exe
symlcsvc.exe
winlogon.ese
LSASS.exe
wdfmgr.exe
LVPrcSrv.exe
Ati2evxx.exe
Scardsvr.exe
WINWORD.exe
Seticon.exe
regsrvs.exe
AGRSMMSG.exe
btwdins.exe
SynTPLpr.exe
SVCHOST.exe
SNDsrvc.exe
ccEvtMgr.exe
SVCHOST.exe
PDVDServ.exe
alg.exe
Ati2evxx.exe
KHALMNPR.exe
ccSetMgr.exe
rundll32.exe
Services.exe
SVCHOST.exe
SVCHOST.exe
SynTPEnh.exe
SVCHOST.exe
Elkctrl.exe
RtkbtMnt.exe
csrss.exe
LVCOMESX.exe
unsecapp.exe
symwsc.exe
svchost.exe
NPROTECT.exe
eDSloader.exe
wmiprvse.exe
s24EvMon.exe
msmsgs.exe
taskmgr.exe
navapsvc.exe
cli.exe
setpoint.exe
CameraAssistant.exe
ccProxy.exe
wmiprvse.exe
spoolsv.exe
BTTray.exe
QtZgAcer.exe
Monitor.exe
admserv.exe
EVTeng.exe
admtray.exe
BTSTAC~1.exe
MSASCui.exe
MsMpeng.exe
Gravisense.exe
ePower_DMC.exe
ccApp.exe
RTHDCPL.exe
SVCHOST.exe
EXPLORER.exe
firefox.exe


Ok that took a long time to type. Theres 70 processes. What can I lose? Why are there so many "svchost.exe"'s?

 

Well to start, go to Start>Run> type in msconfig. Go to the startup tab and remove any listings that I have put above. There are a few I've listed that show up on yours. For others, type the process into google (ie. just type inQtZgAcer.exe and search) and see if it is safe to remove or not. As I sad i before, I would personalyl remove the Acer software that comes with teh laptop, you can always reinstall it should you need to, and it really does just clog up the registry.

SVChost are system files, don't mess with them. That's normal, I have 4 listed in my processes.

 

Here is process list in my system, 35 process with some extra service:
Apache.exe (x2)
ati2evxx.exe (x2)
atitray.exe
BTTray.exe
btwdins.exe
csrss.exe
daemon.exe
dhcp4nt.exe
DrgToDsc.exe
explorer.exe
internat.exe
lsass.exe
Max.exe
mysqld-nt.exe
ntpd.exe
Proxomitron.exe
QtZgAcer.EXE
Rtvscan.exe
scardsvr.exe
services.exe
smss.exe
spoolsv.exe
StartupMonitor.exe
svchost.exe (x3)
SynTPEnh.exe
System
System Idle Process
taskmgr.exe
TaskSwitch.exe
vmnat.exe
winlogon.exe

for average users, the 2 apache server, ati tray, DragToDisc, mysql server, DHCP server, mysql server, proxomitron, taskswitch, vmware nat, is not nesseary.

 

So...I can dump all the acer software without losing functionality? I would probably want to keep some of them right?

 

you can probably dump all except for the webcam software and the Acer ePower Management... then pickup some Omega ATI Drivers..

 

Hmm I was planning on dumping the ePower Management because all it does it allow me to change the screen brightness and other stuff which windows allows me to do already.

 

Gravisense is Acer's hard drive protector (put HD head in lock position when too much motion detected). It is unknown how effective it is, but you may want to keep. Though I have reported that Acer's apps can interfere with other applications that interact with system hooks.

Seems Acer apps are note the best written.