Actually the system is relatively easy to configure I just use the MSCONFIG (go to run, type in msconfig) and unchecked what I do not want to load. But since I track my stocks with the sidebar, I do leave it running but with 2 gigs of memory it runs smooth. If you are running a INTEL processor you may wish to go here
INTEL Updates and download the updated Matrix Storage Manager, it will free up a heap of system memory.
Be sure N read all the notes to make sure this one applies to your chip-set.
A VIC 20 is one of the first home computers on the market, it predates the Radio Shack Trash 80, IBM PC, and is as old as the first Apple N MAC. It had 5K of internal memory, something revolutionary for the time and was expandable to a huge 16K. The OS was hardwired, therefore not corruptible and it booted real fast. When the Apple, and IBM were green and B&W screens with beep N boop sounds, Commodore was color and had a built in SID (sound interface device) generator N was way ahead of their time, and could make actual sounds, music, and real sound effects for the games. Programed in a early BASIC you could write your own games N with a intelligent tape drive you could store your programs N if you were ambitious bought a 5 1/4 floppy drive, Commodore high res monitor and 8 pin dot matrix printer, all way ahead of it's time.
Made by Commodorewhich later made the 64, then the 128 all early advances in the home PC market. Then the Amiga series with the built in OS and then Revolutionary GUI that set the trend for all other OS since. With 5 separate SID generators were included for some real complex sounds were in the Amiga and it was the first with a programmable voice, it could speak something unheard of for the time. It was a true multi tasking computer, and with built in A/D conversion was a dream to play with.
Never heard of the Amiga either, well if you have ever heard or watched a SCIFI show called "Babylon 5" then you are more familiar with it than you realize, all the shows and many other SCIFI shows graphics were done on a Commodore Amiga, the Trademark name was the "Video Toaster".