[Tfug] My experience "recovering" Windows compared to installing Debian

[Sean Warburton]

I just leave them on my computer. Using msconfig, it took me maybe 45
seconds to stop all that stuff from running during each startup.

On 7/30/07, Rich <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 4:11 pm, Sean Warburton wrote:
>
> > simply go to start->run and tyrp msconfig click on the startup tab
> > and unselect whatever you dont want to load.
> Yes, that's a user-friendly interface to the same thing -- regedit is
> more sysadmin friendly...
>
> > My startup time is extremely quick because I have it load only my
> > wireless network and printer software (and yes, there were 17
> > things I dont let my computer load every time I turn it on).
> Now I'm confused. You yourself stop these non-essential things
> loading, but you want to know why, when someone else removes them?
>
> When every one of these things is a potential back door, you want to
> keep them to a minimum. I don't think differently just because I'm
> configuring a Windows system.
>
> R.
>
>
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