Re: Win XP home start up

anthony wrote:

in the bottom right hand corner youll c what programs are active on
start up


No, icons in the System Tray show you only *some* of what's active at start
up. You should be concerned with *all* programs that start automatically,
not just with those that go into the tray.


right cklick y mouse and close what u dont need this might
speed things up


Closing an item in the tray has *no* effect on its starting automatically.
You close it now, but it will start again when you next boot.

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


Hi, I need help. my comp takes far to long to start up. everything
seems to start up at the same time and I don't know how to limit
these startup items. when xp starts, it then takes about 5 mins
before i can use comp. Help


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