Windows degradation and suppressing startup programs

Perform a clean startup to determine whether background programs are interfering with your game or program

 

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Article ID: 331796 - View products that this article applies to. System TipThis article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you.Visit the Windows Vista Solution Center This article was previously published under Q331796 Expand all | Collapse all On This Page Summary This article describes how to start your computer by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs so that you can determine whether a background program is interfering with your game or program. This kind of startup is known as a "clean boot." This article also provides information that you can use to o troubleshoot application or service conflicts. When you start Windows by using a normal startup, several applications and services start automatically, and then run in the background. These programs include basic system processes, antivirus software, system utility applications, and other software that has been previously installed. These applications and services can cause interference when you install or run a program, such as Microsoft Flight Simulator X or Streets & Trips 2010. This article is intended for a beginning to intermediate computer user. You may find it easier to follow the steps if you print this article first. Back to the top | Give Feedback Resolution Prerequisites Check the following requirements before you follow any of the methods in this article. You must be logged on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to perform the methods discussed in this article. If this is your personal computer, you are likely already logged on with an administrator account. If this is a computer that is part of a network at work, you might have to ask the system administrator for help. To verify that you are logged on to Windows with a user account that is a computer administrator, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/admin You must know which version of Windows your computer is running. To determine the version of Windows that you are running, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/admin Things that you should know before you perform a clean startup Some services may temporarily lose functionality when you perform a clean startup. When you restore the settings, the functionality will be restored. However, the original error message or behavior may return. Be aware that if the computer is connected to a network, the network policy settings might prevent you from completing the clean restart procedure. You might have to contact the system administrator for help if you cannot perform a clean startup. Back to the top | Give Feedback How to perform a clean startup Step 1: Start the System Configuration Utility Click Start , type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. Step 2: Configure Selective Startup options In the System Configuration Utility dialog box, click Selective Startup on the General tab. Click to clear the Load Startup Items check box. Note The Use Original Boot.ini check box is unavailable. Click the Services tab. Click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box. Click Disable All, and then click OK. When you are prompted, click Restart. Step 3: Determine whether the problem is resolved After the computer starts, try to start the affected game or program to determine whether the problem is resolved. If the problem does not occur after you restart, the interference is occurring because of a background program or service. In this case, see the "Determine what is causing the problem" section. If the problem returns after you perform a clean startup, the interference is not occurring because of a background program or service. In this case, this article cannot resolve your problem. See the "How to return Windows to Normal startup mode" section to return your computer to the original startup mode. Then, go to the "Next steps" section for other resources that may help you resolve this problem. Back to the top | Give Feedback Determine what is causing the problem Step 1: Start the System Configuration Utility Click Start , type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. Step 2: Enable half of the Services items Click the Services tab, and then click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box. Click to select half of the check boxes in the Services list. Click OK. When you are prompted, click Restart. Step 3: Determine whether the problem is resolved If the problem still occurs after you restart the computer, follow these steps: Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 except that, in Step 2, click to clear half of the check boxes in the Services list that you originally selected. If the problem still occurs after another restart, click to clear half of the remaining check boxes again until one service is running when the problem occurs. If the problem does not occur after a restart, reverse the selection of check boxes. Repeat this process until you can isolate the one service that is running when this problem occurs. If the problem does not occur after you restart the computer, follow these steps: Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 except that, in step 2, click to select half of the cleared check boxes. If the problem still does not occur after another restart, click to select half of the cleared check boxes again. Repeat this process until you have selected all the check boxes and the problem still does not occur. If the problem occurs after a restart, click to clear half of the check boxes that you last selected. Repeat this process until you can isolate the one service that is running when this problem occurs. If you can isolate one service that is selected when the problem occurs, that service is the one that causes the problem. If you cannot isolate any service in this manner, a startup item might be causing the problem. If you determine that a service is causing the problem, go to Step 6. If you determine that no service is causing the problem, go to Step 4. Step 4: Enable half of the Startup items Start the System Configuration Utility. To do this, see Step 1. Click the Startup tab, and then click to select half of the check boxes in the Startup list. Click OK. When you are prompted, click Restart. Step 5: Determine whether the problem is resolved After you complete Step 4, click to clear the Hide All Microsoft Services check box. Then, repeat the steps in Step 3, except that you are now working in the Startup list instead of in the Services list. Step 6: Resolve the problem After you determine the startup item or the service that causes the problem, contact the program manufacturer to determine whether the problem can be resolved. Or, run the System Configuration Utility, and then click to clear the check box for the problem item. Back to the top | Give Feedback How to return Windows to a normal startup mode If the problem occurs when your computer is in clean startup mode, then the interference is not being caused by a background program. In this case, return your computer to the normal startup mode. The normal startup mode starts Windows in the usual manner by loading all device drivers and services. You might also want to return Windows to a normal startup mode if you have problems during any of the troubleshooting procedures that are discussed in this article, and if you want to return the services to the original settings. Notes If you isolated and disabled the interfering program or service, returning your computer to a normal startup mode will enable that program or service. Also, the original error message or behavior will occur again. You do not have to return your computer to a normal startup mode if you followed the steps in the "Determine what is causing the problem" section. This is because you have probably already enabled all the services by performing the procedures in that section. To return your computer to a Normal startup mode, follow these steps: Click Start  in the Start Search box. Type msconfig, and then press ENTER.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. On the General tab, click Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services, and then click OK. When you are prompted, click Restart.

Here's how you can protect your company against data loss, international subpoenas, and cyber crime.

1. Make sure it's clear in your contract that you own your own data. It may seem obvious, but your contract needs to have a clause in it that says you will still have the ability to access your data and transfer it if your cloud provider goes bankrupt. Also, ask for a notice provision which stipulates that your cloud provider must give you a seven day warning before they declare bankruptcy so that you have ample time to get your data off of their servers. And figure out the successor liability—you need to know what happens if your provider is bought out by another company.

2. Your service agreement needs to stipulate how your cloud provider will respond to a subpoena. It should be written into your contract what your service provider will do if they're slapped with a subpoena or a civil discovery request. Under to the Stored Communications Act, as the data owner--which you should be if you followed step one--you legally must be notified any time your data is subpoenad, but have it in writing with your provider just for good measure. This will give you the 10-14 days you need to file a response in court if need be. Some cloud owners, such as Facebook, have a policy of hardly ever disclosing personal information. Check what your potential provider's blanket policy is before you cut them a check.

3. Your provider needs to make backups of your data and guarantee uptime. Write into the contract how often your provider needs to make backups to your data and to where. It doesn't do you any good if it's on the same server chain in the same warehouse that your primary cloud is stored on. If your provider loses your data, they may be liable for damages, but it doesn't matter: your data is still gone and never coming back. Also, ask your provider to give you guarantees on when your cloud will be available; nothing's worse than having to send everyone home early for the day because the server your cloud is stored on is down for maintenance.

4. Ask for Cyber Risk insurance and look into SSAE16 and SOC2 certification. Not all providers will offer it to you, but ask what their options are in regards to Cyber Risk insurance. It can protect against damages incurred from the inadvertent disclosures and theft of confidential employee or client information. If your cloud provider doesn't have the option for you to opt into it, you can contract your own. SSAE16 and SOC2 are international standards that determine the security, availability, process integrity, privacy, and confidentially of a data server. It's sort of like an audit and a must-have for service-based businesses.

by Samuel Wagreich, INC. Magazine

from Paul's Post on FB(CSTODAY) on 9 Traits of Creative People

http://www.matthewschuler.co/why-creative-people-sometimes-make-no-sense/

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Most creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but are often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours at great concentration.

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Most creative people tend to be smart and naive at the same time. “It involves fluency, or the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas; flexibility, or the ability to switch from one perspective to another; and originality in picking unusual associations of ideas. These are the dimensions of thinking that most creativity tests measure, and that most creativity workshops try to enhance.”

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Most creative people combine both playfulness and productivity, which can sometimes mean both responsibility and irresponsibility. “Despite the carefree air that many creative people affect, most of them work late into the night and persist when less driven individuals would not.” Usually this perseverance occurs at the expense of other responsibilities, or other people.

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Most creative people alternate fluently between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. In both art and science, movement forward involves a leap of imagination, a leap into a world that is different from our present. Interestingly, this visionary imagination works in conjunction with a hyperawareness of reality. Attention to real details allows a creative person to imagine ways to improve them.

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Most creative people tend to be both introverted and extroverted. Many people tend toward one extreme or the other, but highly creative people are a balance of both simultaneously.

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Most creative people are genuinely humble and display a strong sense of pride at the same time.

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Most creative people are both rebellious and conservative. “It is impossible to be creative without having first internalized an area of culture. So it’s difficult to see how a person can be creative without being both traditional and conservative and at the same time rebellious and iconoclastic.”

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Most creative people are very passionate about their work, but remain extremely objective about it as well. They are able to admit when something they have made is not very good.

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Most creative people’s openness and sensitivity exposes them to a large amount of suffering and pain, but joy and life in the midst of that suffering. “Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.”

New TLD's (courtesy name.com)

No, you did not misread that headline. New TLDs are actually launching. We're not kidding.

Release dates are still fluid, but a couple IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) are expected to launch in 2-3 weeks, and a handful of gTLDs will launch shortly thereafter (we're thinking it'll be within 30 days, but again, it's fluid).

Which New TLDs are launching first?

As of this very moment, these are the extensions we expect will launch first.

Two IDNs:

• .شبكة (Arabic for "web" or network)
• .游戏 (Chinese for "game(s)")

And the following gTLDs:

.CAMERA, .CLOTHING, .LIGHTING, .SINGLES, .TATTOO, .UNO, .VENTURES, .VOYAGE, and .GURU.

How can I register a domain with a New TLD as soon as it launches?

Each New TLD will launch with a 60(ish)-day Sunrise Period. During Sunrise, only verified trademarks can be registered. Trademarks are verified by the Trademark Clearinghouse.

So if my trademarks have already been verified, I'm all set?

Yup. Make sure your New TLD watcher is up to date (or sign up) and we'll send you Sunrise phase details about specific New TLDs when the launch dates are solidified.

I have trademarks, but they haven't been verified. What do I do?

We advise that you submit your trademarks to the Trademark Clearinghouse as soon as possible. The verification process can take 2-3 weeks. This is just the first batch of New TLDs, with hundreds more set to launch in the next couple years. The sooner you get verified, the sooner you'll be able to register your trademarks as domain names with New TLDs.

I don't plan to participate in Sunrise. Should I still submit my trademarks?

Aside from Sunrise participation, submitting your trademarks also allows the Trademark Clearinghouse to provide Claims Service. During the first 90 days that each New TLD is available to the general public, you'll be alerted if someone attempts to register a domain name using your trademark. This gives you an opportunity to combat any possible trademark infringement.

I don't have any trademarks. When will New TLDs be available to me?

If you don't have any trademarks, the first chance you'll have to register domains with New TLDs will typically be the Landrush phase. Landrush often involves premium pricing and/or auctions, but landrush procedures and date ranges can vary greatly from TLD to TLD.  We'll have more details about specifics for individual landrush phases as the information becomes available.

OK, so when are New TLDs going to be available for everyone on a first-come, first-serve basis?

That's what's known as General Availability. It begins after the Sunrise and Landrush (if applicable) phases have passed. For instance, if there’s a 60-day Sunrise phase and a 30-day Landrush phase for a TLD, General availability would begin 90 days after launch.

I don't have the time or energy to keep up with all this stuff. I just care about a select few New TLDs.

That's what our New TLD Watcher is for, and now that the New TLDs are finally arriving it's more useful than ever. You choose the New TLDs you want news about, and we'll make sure you know about each important development.

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