System configuration utility
The Windows System Configuration Utility (msconfig) is a system tool that allows you to remove programs from automatically starting when windows begins. Removing unnecessary programs from startup should allow your computer to boot up faster.
To check what programs you have running on startup, run msconfig.exe from your start menu.
Hit the run button, and in the box type msconfig.exe to open the application.
You will then be taken to this screen. Hit the startup button to view programs set to start when windows boots up.
Users and systems are all different but generally I believe all that is essential is power management, system tray, anti-virus, and firewall. A good resource for checking the programs running can be found here.
Start up applications list
After checking applications against this list you can uncheck programs you don’t need at startup. These are not deleted only disabled, so if you have need of them in the future, or have removed an essential program, you simply go back check the box and re-start your computer.
June 12th, 2007
A friend of mine said that to me quite a few years ago now, but I remember it as a moment of clarity.
It is easy to forget the awesome nature of our reality. We were sat in sand dunes, a dark and stary night, looking out into the infinite expanse, cos that is what it is!
The whole concept of the Earth in space, the solar system within a galaxy, not dissimilar to many hundreds of thousand more within the visual range of our technological prowess as a species, just stopped me there in time for a while.
The thing is, every sentient being on this planet knows, or is at least aware of the raw facts, the empirical data regarding our place in the universe, yet it seems this wonder, this bizarre collection of percieved data we absorb takes us often no futher and with little excitement into the next day in our ‘real’ important and everyday life.
Space shuttle Atlantis
2007-06-08
Image credit:
NASA/Jim Grossmann
I have to confess to being a bit of a trekie and although I would absolutely love to see a live launch I can’t help but thinking, it’s a bloody primitive mode of transport. Am I getting off the subject here? Anyway, according to the information I am reading this is the 118th shuttle mission, how many of those launches you seen on tv. The 21st flight to the space station and the 28th for Atlantis. Adding another section to the orbiting beast that circles us as we sleep in the comfort of our beds.
Check out that plume, is it not a huge cloud of smoke!
I looked a while ago at a mission log thingy for NASA, and honestly most of the flights were categorised as classified, and there was a few, that were beyond top secret, a super classified. Do you reckon there is a station on the dark side of the moon. Jesting are you not, of course there is, and i tell ya what, they are not dicking about with fossil fueled propulsion out there my dear hearts.
I just googled space shuttle mission list, and got to this from our old buddy Wikipedia List
It looks like all those classified flights I previously mentioned now have a nice alibi. Ok
I know what I initially read.
Roswell New Mexico. It was a UFO, first realese by those first on scene.
No No No, it was a weather baloon, fancy making that error, who knows, whatever, we have watched the X files, and have an inkling into the complexities of conspiracy.
If you have a thought on the subject, drop me a line, till then sleep, as gravity holds you tight.
June 10th, 2007
Free online file conversion
I have often spent a lot of time searching for file conversion sites, for one purpose or another. This site looks as though it might streamline the whole process.
Zamzar free online file conversion.
I came across this today, and although I havn’t yet used it, or had it recommended, I thought I’d do a quick post for my own reference, bookmarking will inevitably get lost amongst all the other semi interesting sites I find on a daily basis. That is another story for a later post.
The site covers image, doc, music and video conversion, you simply upload file and submit e-mail and in theory they post back the converted file. Goooooooodo!!
June 9th, 2007