Re: programs in tray

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From: Chad Harris (ddram32_nospam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:06:08 -0400

Wendy--

You're on the right track but it's not just what shows in the notification
area--it's processes and services that startup and run in the background as
well.

Try:

1) Remove Past Items From the Notification Area (Line 53)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

2) Also Start>Run>msconfig and make sure you have anything unnecessary
unchecked.

3) Additionally see Black Viper's Advice on Windows Service Configurations
and turning off unneeded ones:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

4) Check your processes in Task Manager because a number of processes will
often start in XP Pro or Home that don't need to. I know for example that
in SP1 a very stubborn process associated with and only with a Tablet PC is
defaulted to start and has to be killed to get out of the picture. That'd
be good ole *wisptis.exe* In SP2 which is in public release as RC1, you
will encounter a few more resource gulping processes that don't need to run
and must be killed in Task Manager or possibly regedit corrected.

5) Finally in the name of resource economy it really helps to use at least
Spybot and Adaware at least once a week, because Spyware/Malware and some
unstable BHOs can really cause slowing and slow startup.

Spyware Cleaners (thanks to Hilary Karp for the convenient list/links):

*Spyware Cleaners*:

Cwshredder http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Spybot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org
Ad-aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.12
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10247783.html
Spywareblaster www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155

hth,

Chad Harris

Chad Harris

"WendyW" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:409f01c42b16$cf5781f0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I've got a few old programs that automatically load on
> start up and run in the background. 11 icons are
> displayed in the tool bar at the lower right corner of my
> screen and at least 4 or 5 of them are unnecessary. In
> Win98 there was a way to open a list and delete the
> unnecessary ones. Can this be done with XP?
>
> I think start-up takes a long time because its loading
> all this junk that I don't use and I'm sure its eating up
> operating resources too.

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