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Aloha. I just bought a HP Pavilion dv7-1243d entertainment notebook from costco recently for $649.

It has an AMD TURION-x2 and has 64 bit windows vista installed. I like the nice 17 inch screen. This was kind-of an impulse buy at the time.

I have already installed MTU Microstudio and it works great. clean copies.

BEFORE i screw it up, i've noticed it's especially S-L-O-W on startup and takes awhile to get online. I am ONLY using this lappy for future karaoke and only have it online to download from tricerasoft and a couple other sites. Norton 360 has been installed and is working 100% so it says. I've watched 3 movies on it and the display is great but sometimes it seems to lag during the movies...?

So....what programs can safely be removed, and should be removed, and how do i prevent from accidentally removing drivers and other things i may need... and HOW TO exactly? I'm just trying to get this running as smootly and quickly as possible.

It seems the HP assistant keeps popping up every 2 minutes. I've already removed HP TV and it keeps trying to drive me back to HP's website.

Thank You for any and all help. Layman's terms in order would greatly be appreciated!
Mahalo! -john

Vista sucks. Period. I've learned to deal with it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

Before you play too much with installs and disabling, is Windows 7 a viable purchase?

Ok, guess you're stuck with it. Go to www.blackviper.com. Real user friendly and simple to follow.

I understand you also have microstudio software. There is a brief tutorial on their home page for some additional tweaks required.

Be careful what you remove, as it may be needed by more than one program.

You can run the msconfig program to select programs you don't want to load at start up

Press the "Windows Flag" key plus R to start the "RUN" box.

Type msconfig, click the OK button.

Browse the start up items and un-check any you have issues with.

You need to restart to make the changes work.


Anytime you want to go back to stock, reverse the above..

Thanks guys and thank you JD for that simple but effective suggestion. I turned off about 12 different programs/things at start-up and it seems to be working much better!

And thankfully that dang HP-assistant isn't hounding me anymore, !