The computer. The thing we all love to hate. It does so many important things for us, yet also causes some of our biggest headaches. There is always something that needs to be fixed or optimized, no matter what we do it seems. No matter how well they invent new technology, something still breaks down.
And when it does, you end up calling tech support where either you or the technician is bound to feel stupid at some point. Believe me, it's the technician in many cases, so don't feel bad.
In this article, I am going to go over one of the most common computer problems and how to fix it without calling a computer support technician, or your Uncle Bob's third cousin's friend, who knows a lot about computers.
Let's start at the beginning. Booting up, that (for some of us) long process where your computer comes to life. I read a book that explains computers pretty well. In it, the author said that when a computer gets turned on it's as if every time you woke up, you had to make sure you still had 10 fingers, 10 toes, two eyes, two arms, etc.
That is exactly what a computer does as it boots up and starts the operating system. It uses the registry to examine itself to see if anything it remembers having is not there anymore. So look at the registry as the brain. I do not recommend novice computer users doing anything in the registry. If you would not be comfortable performing your own lobotomy, then leave the registry alone.
Windows comes with tools built into the operating system that makes changes to the registry for you. One of these you should get to know well is msconfig. Every program you download had someone programming it that believes you cannot live without his or her software program running all the time and starting up every time you start your computer.
For almost all software, this is not the case. You can live without his or her program running constantly on your computer. Even Microsoft office and Corel office install themselves into your startup process. They must have thought while writing that program, that everyone will be using their product as soon as they boot up so let's tell the computer to go ahead and do that for them,.
Go to start, the little button in the lower left hand side of your computer, in most instances. Now click on run. Type in "msconfig". You will see several options. Normal startup, Diagnostic startup, and Selective startup. We are going to be selective today and from now on, so click selective.
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