Re: Memory Resident Programs

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Otto Moehrbach wrote:

I have Home Premium Vista. My question is about the icons that appear in
the bottom right corner of the screen. A bunch of them. These, I have
always been told, represent programs or portions of programs that run and
reside in memory upon booting of the computer.
When I had XP, I would do Start - Run - type "msconfig" - OK and select
the
"Startup" tab in the dialog box that appeared. There I could select which
of these little programs I wanted and which not. How do I do that in
Vista?

It is always better to stop programs from starting with Windows from within
the programs themselves, so look in their Options before changing anything
with msconfig - you're just examining things at this stage. If a program
doesn't offer any way to control startup from its Preferences, then use
msconfig to uncheck the box next to its name, Apply and OK out.

Start Orb>Search box>type: msconfig and when it appears in the Results box
above, right-click and choose "Run as Administrator".

If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation,
type the password, or click Continue. Then see what is on the Startup tab.
You don't need to restart immediately, but the next time you do you'll get
a dialog saying you've used the Utility. Usually in Vista this will be
blocked by Windows Defender and you'll need to allow it so you can then
tick the box that says in effect, "don't bother me about this again".

Important - Do not use the System Configuration Utility to stop processes.
Instead, use Services.msc.

Start Orb>Search box>type: services.msc and when it appears in the Results
box above, right-click and choose "Run As Administrator".

Do not stop any services unless you really, really know what you're doing.

The free Autoruns program is very useful for managing your Startup -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx - Autoruns

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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