• Add all my usual programs to the startup folder?

    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 1 01:03:30 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Every time I boot windows, I start my newsreader Forte Agent v5, email
    program Eudora, Editpad++, Firefox, and Solitaire

    Is it a good idea or a bad idea to put them in my startup folder?

    The advantage is I could concentrate on something else, even leave the
    room, while it was booting.

    The disadvantages, I'm not sure of, but I think there are some. ???

    I already use Anvir Task Manager (to avoid having unwanted startup
    programs), and if need be, I could put some of my 5 favorite programs in delayed startup, with delays of whatever is good in minutes and seconds,
    down to 1 second. so I could start them at 5 second intervals or some
    such.

    I have win10 but I'm replacing one box with win11.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to micky on Sun Dec 1 11:19:00 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    micky wrote:

    Every time I boot windows, I start my newsreader Forte Agent v5, email program Eudora, Editpad++, Firefox, and Solitaire

    Is it a good idea or a bad idea to put them in my startup folder?

    I wouldn't ... lets face it, your machines seem rather inclined to
    having "issues", what if Agent barfed on a corrupt folder when it
    started, or Firefox tried to reload a million tabs?

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to usenet@andyburns.uk on Mon Dec 2 23:33:11 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:19:00 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Every time I boot windows, I start my newsreader Forte Agent v5, email
    program Eudora, Editpad++, Firefox, and Solitaire

    Is it a good idea or a bad idea to put them in my startup folder?

    I wouldn't ... lets face it, your machines seem rather inclined to
    having "issues", what if Agent barfed on a corrupt folder when it
    started, or Firefox tried to reload a million tabs?

    Good point.... But I bought a new used one tonight, Bigger, better, and
    faster, Same advice?

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to micky on Tue Dec 3 01:27:17 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Mon, 12/2/2024 11:33 PM, micky wrote:
    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:19:00 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Every time I boot windows, I start my newsreader Forte Agent v5, email
    program Eudora, Editpad++, Firefox, and Solitaire

    Is it a good idea or a bad idea to put them in my startup folder?

    I wouldn't ... lets face it, your machines seem rather inclined to
    having "issues", what if Agent barfed on a corrupt folder when it
    started, or Firefox tried to reload a million tabs?

    Good point.... But I bought a new used one tonight, Bigger, better, and faster, Same advice?


    This is a matter of taste.

    When I'm not using the Bash shell, I shut it down. Immediately.
    I have plenty of RAM. I could leave it running, but, I don't.

    Naturally, my browser is running for most of a session, it does not
    get the same treatment. But for rubbish, the rubbish goes in the bin,
    it isn't sitting in a pile in the middle of the kitchen floor. I would not
    want a crash to damage six programs, when it could damage only one program.

    As long as you aren't running Linux Snaps, and you have an NVMe for the
    C: drive, everything you start should be instantaneous. Or, as quickly
    as windows Defender can scan them and give the go-ahead for start.

    Paul

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Chris on Tue Dec 3 11:29:28 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 3 Dec 2024 07:54:36 -0000 (UTC),
    Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

    micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:19:00 +0000, Andy Burns
    <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Every time I boot windows, I start my newsreader Forte Agent v5, email >>>> program Eudora, Editpad++, Firefox, and Solitaire

    Is it a good idea or a bad idea to put them in my startup folder?

    I wouldn't ... lets face it, your machines seem rather inclined to
    having "issues", what if Agent barfed on a corrupt folder when it
    started, or Firefox tried to reload a million tabs?

    Good point.... But I bought a new used one tonight, Bigger, better, and
    faster, Same advice?

    Yes, even moreso with a used device. How "used" is it? Has it had a
    complete wipe and reinstall of windows?

    I don't know yet, but probably. From an Amazon-affiliated renewer**.

    I bought a desktop frrom Amazon about 5 years ago. It's about 10 years
    old now. It has an HDD and an SSD. I figured the rebuilder added the
    second, but later found out they were originally sold that way. It
    worked fine except for one story unrelated to the refurbishing. (Wait.
    He didn't send me exactly the one I ordered. The one he sent was very
    similar and it would boot off the image I made of the previous computer, connected by USB iirc. I liked that. But for some other imporrtant
    reason, I sent it back (no charge to me) and he sent the one I'd ordered
    in the first place. The new one wouldn't boot off the image, but I
    hadn't relied on doing that.)

    **I don't know if renew is the right word. The sellers should like it
    because it has "new" in it. What could be better than new. IIRC Amazon
    used to call them refurbished. Not sure what connotations refurbish or
    rebuild have.

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com on Tue Dec 3 12:35:41 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:29:28 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

    about 5 years ago. It's about 10 years
    old now. It has an HDD and an SSD. I figured the rebuilder added the
    second, but later found out they were originally sold that way. It
    worked fine except for one story unrelated to the refurbishing.

    You might have read this the first time I told it, 4, 5, maybe 6 years
    ago.

    After I installed some software, the pc would no longer boot. Barely
    anything happened. I tried to boot from Hiren's something-or-other and
    I bought another similar program, and I used DOS to reinstall the boot sequence, and did other things, in order to uninstall the program I'd
    put in. I used WinRE. I asked here for ideas and did everything
    suggested. And I did them over and over and spent maybe 40 or 50 hours
    trying to get it to work. I had used Hirens to get almost all my data
    off the computer, but I wanted to show myself that I could also fix it.

    I had a laptop and I used that for email and newsgroups and the web and
    I read reviews about the program that caused all these problems, and
    there was nothing about it causing problems.

    This went on for 3 or 4 months.

    Finally I read something online about pressing F11 or 12 (or 10 or 9)
    while starting, and that is all I had to do**. it didn't open the BIOS
    and I didn't make changes to the BIOS, just press that F key, and the
    computer started and ran like it had. Including the problem program.
    Later I concluded somehow that ther had been an MS update at about the
    same time I installed the program, and it caused the problem. I think
    maybe I found a line in the update list about it being backed out, or at
    least installed again a few days after the computer worked again. Of
    course by this timer it was 4 months later, and whatever bug was in it,
    MS had found and fixed, probably a day or two after my problems started.
    **I've only read about this once. I'd think it would be repeated
    constantly. I don't know what it did, but I think it backed out the
    most recent update. I told here how this one step fixed it and got very
    little comment back.

    I wanted to call the refurbisher (even though it was months after I'd
    bought it, maybe he'd know.), but Amazon used 3 or 4 refurbishers to do
    this very model, and mine had sold out, so he didn't get listed, and I
    didn't remember which it was. Years later I found a 1x2" sticker on the
    side of the box that faces me (although it's at hip level) when I walk
    by that gives his company name and phone number.

    (Wait.
    He didn't send me exactly the one I ordered. The one he sent was very
    similar and it would boot off the image I made of the previous computer, >connected by USB iirc. I liked that. But for some other imporrtant
    reason, I sent it back (no charge to me) and he sent the one I'd ordered
    in the first place. The new one wouldn't boot off the image, but I
    hadn't relied on doing that.)

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Chris on Mon Jan 27 12:01:54 2025
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 3 Dec 2024 21:15:42 -0000 (UTC),
    Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

    micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 3 Dec 2024 07:54:36 -0000 (UTC),
    Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

    micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:19:00 +0000, Andy Burns >>>> <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

    micky wrote:

    Every time I boot windows, I start my newsreader Forte Agent v5, email >>>>>> program Eudora, Editpad++, Firefox, and Solitaire

    Is it a good idea or a bad idea to put them in my startup folder?

    I wouldn't ... lets face it, your machines seem rather inclined to
    having "issues", what if Agent barfed on a corrupt folder when it
    started, or Firefox tried to reload a million tabs?

    Good point.... But I bought a new used one tonight, Bigger, better, and >>>> faster, Same advice?

    Yes, even moreso with a used device. How "used" is it? Has it had a
    complete wipe and reinstall of windows?

    I don't know yet, but probably. From an Amazon-affiliated renewer**.

    I bought a desktop frrom Amazon about 5 years ago.

    Confused. Why are you telling my about something you bought five years ago, >when I asked you about the machine you bought the other night?

    I don't know. I must have had a reason. Sorry.

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