There are lot of things that you could do in order to make your computer machine to run faster. But, one of the alternative is disabling unnecessary background programs.First of all, check what's running in the background. Most of programs simply install themselves when you are browsing internet. Thus, you could not notice what they are and when they are in your laptop computers. Since they are installing themselves in your machine they will launch automatically at the Windows start-up. Although you are not using them, they still use your memory and CPU cycle.
There is a good news for the Windows XP, Me and 98 users. For these windows users you could disable those programs by using the Run Tab of MSCONFIG. But if you are the windows 2000 users, you the additional tool such as PC Magazine's Startup
When you are disabling the programs that listed in the MSCONFIG, you must choose those programs that have nothing to do with your machine. As an example you are using the wireless system of IntelProset. If you are disabling the IntelProset that's mean you are stopping the program from working. Hence you have to restart the computer in order to make it work again in your computer normally.
