auto start etc

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Hi there

a couple of quick questions:

(1) when I boot up XP, there are some applications that start automatically:
how do I remove some of these applications from this "auto start"?

(2) how do I change the desktop so I can move icons to any position? At the
moment there is some sort of "snap to" grid, so icons can only be placed at
specific locations - I'm guessing at something like 50 pixels from each
other. (So basically I want the grid to be the same size as the screen
resolution, and not at 50x50 or whatever it is set to at the moment).


Thanks
Peter


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