Great idea Bill! I used to do this before a contest under WinME, when I
could somewhat understand what I was turning off. Now under Vista there is
so much crap loaded into memory it's impossible to determine what is
essential and what is fluff. I think I will experiment a bit this week and
see what happens. My first thought is to disable everything in both Startup
and Services, then reenable the anti-virus scan and firewall stuff. I have
DSL, but will probably opt to leave that running for contests where I use
spotting. Thanks for reminding me about msconfig.
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
To: "Writelog" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: January 11, 2009 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] CW stuttering & Windows
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:18:24 -0900, "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
> wrote:
>
>>and the problem stems from Windows applications running in the background
>>making some call at exactly the wrong time.
>
> REPLY:
>
> One of the best ways to disable all that stuff running in the
> background is to run the msconfig.exe program. I use this so often I
> created an icon for it on my desktop. Go to the "startup" tab and
> disable them all, then restart your computer. On my computer, there
> are no programs there that are essential.
>
> If you're feeling really brave, also go to the "services" tab and
> disable them too, but you probably should not disable anything related
> to security such as anti-virus or firewall.
>
> And lastly, if you have an "always-on" internet connection such as DSL
> or satellite, you can disable that too. This may not be really
> necessary with everything else disabled, but you could if you wanted.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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