About Tom Guertin Expertise I can answer Desktop and Laptop hardware questions as well as software questions. I have worked as a programmer 9 years, test/QA 9 years, and system administration 7 years. Having a diverse background helps in diagnosing computer problems.
Experience Rocket Software Oct 14, 2002 – Present
Senior Systems Engineer: Responsible for all software and hardware installations, analysis, and support on all desktops and laptops. Support 200 remote employees along with 5 remote sites. Build servers, test, and build systems. Manage Active Directory, Exchange, Call Manager, and Unity accounts.
EMC Corporation Dec 31, 1999 – Nov 11, 2001
Senior Software QA Team Lead Engineer: Responsible for full software quality assurance of EMC's SymAPI and SymCLI software for Base and Control functionality.
Created full regression test suite in perl.
Peritus Software Services Sep 4, 1994 – Mar 30, 2001
Senior Software Engineer: Maintain outsourced code for CV, BULL, DG (UNIX), and Stratus (UNIX). Assist Y2K renovation team as project leader and COBOL renovator for Y2K compliance.
Team leader for as many as 21 engineers.
Supported DG AOS/VS II and AVIION (UNIX) communications products and AOS/VS II Databases. Maintained DG’s patch download website by modifying the XML web page, making each fix available.
Sys admin for both DG AOS/VS II and AVIION (UNIX) platforms.
BULL Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Aug 1988 – Sep 1994
Senior Software Engineer: Designed, Developed, Maintained, and Component Tested File System, Printer, and Device Utilities in an ISO 9000 environment using Assembly and C.
Maintained 21 utilities, fixing all problems within company wide goal.
Re-wrote 5 utilities in assembly with only 1 reported problem since 1989.
Maintained a Dump Analysis Utility, which enables users to follow system structures, dump group information, and analyze memory.
SQA component tested all DPS6 utilities.
KRAFT Inc., Dairy Group Oct 1986 - Aug 1988
Computer Programmer: Designed and developed a program that accounts for all maintenance parts, repairs, and moneys using DBASE III Plus.
Purchasing agent for all building and machine maintenance.
Education/Credentials EDUCATION: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Major: BS. Computer Systems Engineering
Question When I stated out I was using mostly 98. I happenes to like. Then I bought a new computer w/ Vista on it.
Back in the old days of 98 one could go toa window and decided by using a check mark which programs would run on boot up and which once wouldn't. For instance, I never use Window Office, so why should i have it running in the background taking up space and resources.
Is there a similar window in Vista that I can stop programs from running when I boot up when I don't need them.
Thanks for taking a Vista question even tho you are a Windows guy. Hope you cal help.
Sincecelry,
Kirby Lemesh
Answer Kirby,
There are many ways to stop services from automatically starting.
1) Cleanout (delete) the short cuts in your startup folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\Kirby\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
(In the above folder, Substitute your login for Kirby)
2) Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Right click the service, drag down and click Properties, and set Startup type: to Manual
3) MSCONFIG still exists in Vista. Start -> Run and type 'msconfig' <enter>
Here you can adjust startup programs under the Startup TAB and services in the Service TAB.
You should keep track of what you set to manual or stop so if somethings not working afterwards you can figure out which process stopped it.
I hope this helps! Let me know...
Tom
Kirby, Item 2 and 3 do work on Vista. I checked them this morning.
