Re: Unwelcome start up program

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:42:37 +0000

Drew wrote:

>
>When I boot up my computer, a program (Sonic) starts. It is not on the
>start menu as far as I can tell. How can I prevent it from starting?

See the Startup page at a run of MSConfig and uncheck the relevant line.

One thing it might be is Sonic's DLA CD-RW 'packet writing' package. If
you have that installed you need the startup item 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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