How To Use MSCONFIG

learn how to use the msconfig tool to do things like troubleshoot computer lock up issues, speed up a slow pc, and remove programs that start up with your computer. This is something we use almost every day and in fact is a huge money maker because of how drastic the improvement can be on certain computers.

How to Use MSCONFIG to Speed Up Your PC

Welcome to our free computer support video on how to use windows msconfig to troubleshoot various issues. This utility is multi talented as it works great to speed up a bogged down computer as well as serves as one of the most useful computer repair tools I have every used.

The Topic is msconfig. This encompasses all of the following:

What You Learn
-How to Launch MSCONFIG

-What things are safe to change and what to avoid
-How it can speed up your computer
-How the MSCONFIG tool works
-What sorts of startup items slow down your computer
-What is MSCONFIG
-Fix computer lock up issues
-Remove programs from start up
-and more

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This small tool exposes a lot of issues and is good for both home users and business. Designed to help you troubleshoot your computer the Microsoft Configuration Utility is a great way to both increase performance and fix various issues. It can also be used to make sure you computer boots faster and locks up less.
It is available for all versions of windows with some work. (most of them are included)

To get going you just need to click on your computers start button and choosing run and then typing “msconfig”.
The main tab you will want to look at is the start up tab. This will show you a list of everything that starts up when you turn on your computer. You can usually see most of their icons in the lower right hand corner of your screen by the clock.
Now that you are looking at this you can begin troubleshooting your computers problem. You can stop an item from stating up simply by unchecking it. If your troubleshooting an issue I would recommend doing this one at a time so you will know which one actually fixed it. If you start by turning a bunch of them off then you wont know what actually fixed it.
If this is just an issue of speeding things up a little, you can uncheck a bunch of them at once. Really the only ones you always want to avoid are anti-virus programs, and anything associated with hard ware like printers, external hard drives, scanners and such.
Make sure to grab a pad and pen so you can better track what you have done.
Typically even a long list here isn’t going to effect how your computer runs, but if your system is on the borderline with things like RAM it can really make things run a lot smoother.
You will need to reboot to see how things change and watch the video for more info.