There are many programs that automaticall load onto your computer when you start up, most of them are necessary for the computer to run. However loads of spyware and installed programs latch on by defualt to start during the boot.

How to fix this is simple.

Start Menu > Run > Type in mscongfig.exe > Hit “OK”

Now you are in your Systems Configuration File.

**If you dont know what it is or what it does, it is a good rule of thumb not too touch anything in here if not needed.**

Moving on. You will see 6 tabs ( general-system.ini-win.ini-boot.ini-services(as mentioned in original post)-Startup

Go to “Startup”

The descriptions are fairly self explanatory. I would remove and internet application such as yahoo search bar things of that nature. Next is anything the resembles a pop up for intance i used to have an adware that was called savebates or other that would load pop ups from time to time. last but not least is Applications. Applications such as Skype, Acrobat and so forth latch on and load at start up, removing these and opening them manually as needed will greatly increase not only start up speed but also memory allocation since there not open in the background.

Hope some of this helps.

Niklas