So you want to make your computer run faster, increase your frame rate for gaming, and boost your Internet surfing speed? Good idea and a good way to start is by disabling unnecessary programs from running upon startup through msconfig. We are not all “computer geeks” however, and we are not always sure which programs are safe to disable. Well, there is one link that will help users of any experience level to determine which ones are safe.

First, fire up msconfig.exe, then navigate to Sysinfo.org. There you simply type in the name of anything in your msconfig list and they’ll tell you all about the software in question.

I typed in  RAID Event Monitor, which is in my list, and got this:

iaanotif.exe
IAA Event Monitor User Notification Tool - part of Intel? Application Accelerator - “a performance software package for desktop PCs using select Intel? chipsets” that “replaces the ATA drivers that come with Windows with drivers optimized for desktop and mobile PCs.” If you use the RAID version it’s required to notify you if a RAID 1 disk has failed

Now I know if it’s safe to disable this tool. Pretty cool eh?