BMC_War Machine Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 (edited) Hi all. I'm relatively new to the forums but i've been using Launchbox for some time and BigBox for about the last 4 months. Long story short, i came across an HP Pavilion t15-N200 laptop that i use for emulation only. It runs up to PSP flawlessly and instead of splurging for a new GPU for my PC, i've decided to just stick with it (at least for now). WIth all that said, when i wiped the laptop, i installed Windows 10 and was wondering if anyone has any tips on how to remove any other startup programs so that it boots even faster and i can go straight into BigBox. I've already adjusted the regedit to boot into BigBox, although it still goes through the windows login and all, and i havent seen or found anything online to boot from bios like you can with recalbox, if there was i'd be all set. Edited November 23, 2018 by BMC_War Machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 (edited) Download and run Autoruns from Microsoft. It's a standalone program so doesn't need to be installed. In a nutshell, it "shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login". With it you can check/un-check which app and services will run at startup. Anything you un-check remains there [visually] so later you can re-check as needed. If you want to get real crazy, check out Black Viper’s Windows 10 Service Configurations. He (she?) details out Services in Windows 10 that can be changed on a system for a "safe" or "tweaked" mode, according to the author. Edited November 23, 2018 by JoeViking245 formatting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMC_War Machine Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 Thanks for the input Joe! I appreciate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjadog Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 4 hours ago, JoeViking245 said: Download and run Autoruns from Microsoft. It's a standalone program so doesn't need to be installed. In a nutshell, it "shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login". With it you can check/un-check which app and services will run at startup. Anything you un-check remains there [visually] so later you can re-check as needed. If you want to get real crazy, check out Black Viper’s Windows 10 Service Configurations. He (she?) details out Services in Windows 10 that can be changed on a system for a "safe" or "tweaked" mode, according to the author. Do you happen to know if Autoruns will work with Win8. I checked out the website and it just basically says Windows. I'm in the same boat, making a laptop into a dedicated MAME player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 Quote Do you happen to know if Autoruns will work with Win8. I checked out the website and it just basically says Windows. I'd almost bet it'd even work in Windows 95. OK, maybe. lol But I'm sure it will on Win8. All it's doing is reading entries from the registry file. It will NOT change anything unless you tell it to. So it's safe to at least look at. In fact to make a change, Autoruns needs to be ran as Administrator. If you attempt a change something without starting it as administrator, it will say something to the affect of... "Hey! You didn't start me as an administrator. You want me to restart as an admin so we can actually make these changes happen?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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