What To Dump?

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Wow! Same machine? In Normal Boot Mode? You've disabled a ton of those StartUps. Good work. You appear to have disabled you AVAST AntiVirus and security utilities <– not a good idea, please turn it back on If it were my machine I wouldn't have Blackberry Desktop Manager.ink enabled Nor Kodat easyShare And though a decent program, I am not a fan of SpywareGuard, expecially if having slow/laggy machine performance. Your Choice. After Enabling you AVAST! browse around a bit and open a few of your commonly used applications. Give us a report back of how the machine is functioning. It would be useful to Run and Post another fresh PCPitstop Full Tests

Glad to see that I'm on the right track. How's this: http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/sec.asp?conid=22111400

Please advise!

Oh oh, bad news. I did the tweaks as suggested and when I rebooted my system I had an error message that told me that I was not able to load my personalized themes. What do I do to get back all of the icons that I originally had on my Desktop? Help?

Did a system restore and it seems to have righted itself. Did I do the correct thing?

yes. I'll have a look at your Pit Test to assure that you have AntiVirus in Startup. And have a general look around at performance while I'm there. How's the machine performing at this time?

Performing MUCH better! Just want to make sure I've got it the best that it can be. Thank you so much for your help!

Hi dphenry,

Doing the right thing by using a Restore Point, has also taken you back to where a lot of unnecessary processes and applications are starting from your Start Folder.

I "suspect" that Blackberry Desktop Manager.ink was the item that may have been handling your Desktop presentation and caused you noticable concern when it was disabled.

Instead of performing a System Restore, you can simply "enable" the single item using MSCONFIG or CodeStuff-Starters, whichever you prefer.

Extra "StartUps" will slow down your system performance.

Since you now know "how"….

I'd suggest to take it in smaller steps over time.
Disable a single feature using either MSCONFIG or CodeStuff Starters.
Then run your machine for a while to see if that makes any difference.
If nothing unpleasant occurs, then disable an additional feature and repeat gradually.

You will also benefit from Defragmenting your C:\ again.

If you would like, keep in touch once a week or every few days as you progress.
I would be happy to follow with your progress.

Best Regards

Will do on all counts! Thank you again.

Perform the Defrag in SAFE Mode using the native MS System Tools - Disk Defragment (in start - accessories) If that C:\ drive continues to appear heavily fragmented in your Pit Tests, then I'll recommend a (free) third-party disk deframentation product.

Since my system Defrag was not working, I have been using the Diskkeeper software, ok?

Diskkeeper is OK, except I don't think you can run it in SAFE Mode. I'm presuming the (free) version) ? Even if you still have the "full version on trial" don't run the "Real-Time" defrag settings, rather do manual only. Various people and systems get varied results. There are a couple of additional good options to consider. I'd like to see the analyzed Fragmentation below 9% and hopefully below 5%.

This looking better? What are the other defrag options?

http://www.pcpitstop.com/betapit/sec.asp?conid=22111400

TY!