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Originally Posted by Blossom
Yes it's that autoruns program. I love Process Explorer but never used autoruns before.
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I still use an ancient program by a chap named Mike Lin called Startup Control Panel. It dates from the Win9X days, but still works. It was available as a Control Panel applet, and as a stand alone executable.
Run it, and it pops up a window with a tabbed interface. Stuff loaded on startup may be loaded from several different locations - the current user's startup folder, the all users startup folder, and the HK Current User and HK Local Machine registry hives. Startup lists what is run from each of those, and lets you move the startup location to a different tab, disable it, or delete the startup entry entirely. I have various things that want to be run on startup but don't need to be, and I simply disable the startup entry.
(As a rule, stuff loaded from HK Local Machine tends to be stuff like drivers, and you don't want to disable those unless you know what you're doing.)
Win10 Task Manager has a Startup tab that lets you perform similar manipulations.
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I need a firewall for Vista 64. This is the PC my husband uses so it needs to work well and not bother him with a gazillion pop ups.
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How much time and effort are you willing to spend configuring it? Whether it bothers him with popups will depend on the degree it has been configured, and when it will still want to ask the user what to do.
You may not need a third-party firewall. The one supplied with Vista may do what you need. See
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2095...l_vista_7.html,
https://www.techrepublic.com/article...tion-features/, and
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/....security.aspx for details.
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I just took it apart and blew all the dust out with a can of air, and qtips. All the temps are back to normal. It was a snow storm in there. She's may be old but she runs solid. Quadcore, 6GB of ram. Gateway made lovely computers back in the day.
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Periodic cleaning works wonders. I had an issue on an older desktop where it would suddenly stop in its tracks. Enough dust had accumulated to clog the CPU fan, and the system would overheat and stop to protect itself.
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Dennis