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    unnecessary startup items?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by totono, Aug 13, 2006.

  1. totono

    totono Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I am trying to manually remove all the stuff I dont need from my fe 690. Can anyone tell me which one of the following sony startup items are necessary and which ones are crap?

    surveysa.exe (what is this?)
    SPMgr.exe
    ISBMgr.exe
    VAIOUpdt.exe
    VCUServe.exe
    TosBTMng.exe

    I have already disabled PartSeal.exe and Switcher.exe because I read they were completely optional to the user online. The above processes were not clear to me.
    Thanks!
     
    totono, Aug 13, 2006
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  2. deltafx1942

    deltafx1942 Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Go to the optimizing notebook section of NBR, and there you will find an article that has a great website to go to that tells you what each startup item does and whether you should remove it or not.
     
    deltafx1942, Aug 13, 2006
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  3. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Being such a general-purpose OS, Windows will often start up processes that are not needed. If you go to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services, you can see that by default Windows has most services start automatically. Depending on your tendencies as a user, and your preferences, you can slim down Windows quite a bit. For example, you can disable/set to manual Indexing Service, Fast User Switching, or other services that programs sometimes install. I have cut Windows down to 27 processes at boot up, but my laptop didn't come with any bloatware. If I were you, I would remove all the Sony software unless its a driver or something like that.
     
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  4. chochocho

    chochocho Notebook Enthusiast

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    Where is the optimizing notebook section?
     
    chochocho, Aug 13, 2006
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  5. NuntiusLuminis

    NuntiusLuminis Notebook Evangelist

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    It's in the Dummy section.
     
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  6. totono

    totono Notebook Consultant

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    good link but these specific processes im talking about are sony-related and dont appear or arent really well explained in these "process info" websites...
     
    totono, Aug 13, 2006
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  7. autophobic

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    surveysa.exe (what is this?)- some optional sony survey, I was able to take it off somehow, i forget how though

    SPMgr.exe- power management
    ISBMgr.exe- makes sure the battery you have is from sony, annoying but I cant figure out a way to clear it besides just taking it off on msconfig
    VAIOUpdt.exe- automatic updates, turn it off
    VCUServe.exe- camera utility, im also trying to switch it to manual but I cant find it in services.msc at all
    TosBTMng.exe- bluetooth stack
     
    autophobic, Aug 13, 2006
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  8. NuntiusLuminis

    NuntiusLuminis Notebook Evangelist

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    Autophobic, list your startup items, will you?

    I have:

    NvCpl
    Apoint
    igfxtray
    igfxpers
    SPMgr
    ISBMgr
     
    NuntiusLuminis, Aug 13, 2006
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  9. autophobic

    autophobic Notebook Geek

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    your start up items seem a lot less than my own, are you listing all of them?

    I have half a dozen mcafee products, along with yours, minus the two intel graphics controllers

    i also have
    vcuserve
    jusched(java)
    vesmgr
    adobe gamma
    and until recently the fingerprint utility
     
    autophobic, Aug 13, 2006
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