Re: Startup programs

dbltap wrote:

> Thanks for the info.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OlkiT7MBGHA.3396@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> dbltap wrote:
>>
>>> I know that if I go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System
>>> Information, I can view the programs that load at startup. However I
>>> do not see a way to prevent a program from loading. When I had my
>>> old PC that ran Win98, all I had to do was uncheck a box in System
>>> Information and the program would not load.
>>>
>>> How do prevent a program from loading with Win XP Home.
>>
>>
>> On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
>> Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you
>> actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show
>> icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that
>> doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the
>> Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to start
>> automatically. However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the
>> purpose of
>> running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people
>> tell you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these
>> programs you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance
>> severely, but others have no effect on performance.
>>
>> Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should
>> do is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and
>> what the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can
>> get more information about these at
>> http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,
>> try google searches and ask about specifics here. Once you have that
>> information, you can make an intelligent informed
>> decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup


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