Startup program monitor

I seem to remember someone here mentioning a way of seeing in real time what the computer is loading on bootup. I know about MSConfig to see what's checked in Startup etc. but something is taking ages to load and is stopping me from accessing my programs for about 3 minutes after the desktop appears. I'd love to know what it is - I suspect a service rather than a program. The symptoms are that when I click on the IE or Excel icon nothing happens for about 3 minutes, then all is fine. It's clearly still loading something. McAfee is in the frame (checking for updates) but I can't find how to stop it doing that.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb54...

Launching resource monitor after you have got onto the desktop might also give you a good idea.

It can be caused by quite a few things during startup, volume fragmentation as well as Windows logging, and the VSC service can also slow it down a bit.

I think the biggest problem is the one that begins with an "M" and ends in "fee".

As well as Autoruns, HijackThis! is simple and effective.

Edited by Deadbeat (Sat 18-Feb-12 21:49:07)