Speed+Boot=Spoot-Up

[SLNT_FIR]

I am interested in speeding up our computer's boot time. It seems to take a
billion years due to our Internet Security things. I looked at msconfig and it
appears we have tons of junk (mainly microsoft!) that is probably clogging up
the computer. We have Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Internet Security and I
understand that it contributes to our boot up time but it's driving me insane.
I took some screenshots of msconfig's tab "services" because I'm too lazy to
type all of them out. And you can't copy - paste.

I was hoping if any of you could help me figure out which ones are unnecessary and I could disable for bootup.

BTW, there is an option called "Diagnostic Boot-Up". It boots up the minimal amount of services for your computer. However, will they load by themselves if I launch a program that I need them for?
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[Tek7 (Legacy)]

I'd suggest looking over the items in the Startup tab before messing with anything in the Services tab. It's...complicated. Perhaps a Windows expert could explain more clearly?

 

[SLNT_FIR]

Yup. Looked up in "Startup". MSCONFIG right?

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i know that mimboot takes up processing usage early on, and it's non-essential and so is qttask and so is picozip tray.

(I uninstalled picozip recently... >_> better run norton system works!)
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hpsysdrv
KBD
RECGUARD
NvCpl
S3tray2
igfxtray
hkcmd
ps2
nwiz
ccApp
urlLstCk
SNDmon
LTMSG
mimboot
qttask
ct
dumprep 0 -u
jusched
***THIS ONE IS BLANK??? Nothing is there but a checkbox is checked***
PCHBUTTON
wkdetect
cfgwiz
picoziptray
microsoft office
microsoft works calender reminders
spysubtract
symantec fax starter edition port
event reminder

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[Talon]

How many running process do you have running after boot?

 

[Atown]

technically if ur running xp, your safe to turn off everything on msconfig. thats what i did

 

[SLNT_FIR]

I know for a fact, that none of these are viruses, trojans, etc...
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svchost.exe
sdfmgr.exe
alg.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
msmsgs.exe <-- Usually Ended Process
explorer.exe
taskmgr.exe <-- Usually not open
hpsysdrv.exe
KBD.exe
CCAPP.exe
ltmsg.exe
jusched.exe
WkCalRem.exe
OLFSNT40.EXE
iexplore.exe <-- Usually not open
wowexec.exe <-- Some sort of DOS thing
ntvdm.exe
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System Idle Process
System
CCEVTMGR.EXE
spoolsv.exe
smss.exe
csrss.exe
winlogon.exe
services.exe
lsass.exe
svchost.exe
CCPROXY.exe
NAVAPSVC.exe
svchost.exe
NPROTECT.exe
nvsvc32.exe
CCSETMGR.EXE
SAVSCAN.EXE
NOPDB.EXE
svchost.exe
symlcsvc.exe
symwsc.exe
SNDSrvc.exe
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Talon, I noticed many "svchost.exe" under LOCAL SERVICE,SYSTEM, and NETWORK SERVICE. I know they are not viruses etc, but why so many?
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I EXITED spysubtract.

I notice that these processes sometimes randomly eat up what little CPU i have:

msgmsgs
spysubtract
MMDiag
mim


These are non-essential processes
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@Atown:

Technically, yes.
I would like a more specific answer though.

BTW, there is an option called "Diagnostic Boot-Up". It boots up the minimal amount of services for your computer. However, will they load by themselves if I launch a program that I need them for?