Re: Programs open when starting windows

From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain.com)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:43:20 -0700

"Antonio (London)" <Antonio (London)@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:99443F15-7575-498C-881E-5140A0673BEA@microsoft.com...

> As soon as I strart Windows XP a lot of programs start automatically: all
> office programs, explorer, messenger, internet connection... I would like
> to
> remove the automatical start of this program and on starting just going to
> the Desktop.
>
> It's not a virus as I have a strong antivirus and doesn't detect any. I
> have
> tryed aswell the "program tasks" but there's nothing there.
>
> Could anyone help me, please? Would really appreciate it.

On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to
see if it has the choice not to start. 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 with at http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html If you can't find
it there, try google searches and ask about specifics here. 

-- 
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Shell/User
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