I have a Dell Latitude laptop running XP Pro SP2. It has WiFi,
firewall, spyware and AV software that runs at every start-up.

I have one certain situation where I use the laptop on a regular basis
in which I will never need the WiFi and anti-malware software to run.
I'd like to create a start-up profile that does not include these so I
don't have to wait until everyone finishes their scans and checks and
connection attempts before I can have my machine back!!

Is it easy enough to create a separate profile that would do this? Or
would I need to investigate smoe kind of script that would toggle
these? (Also, as part of this one specific use, I use the laptop's
video driver to rotate the screen 90 degrees to the right so I can use
the machine open and on its left edge. It's almost a perfect 8 1/2 x
11 that way. It would be great if I could include this rotation in
the start-up profile - just one less thing to do manually.)

Ed

Look at Hardware Profiles, look in your Help files for more information.

John

Ed from AZ wrote:

> I have a Dell Latitude laptop running XP Pro SP2. It has WiFi,
> firewall, spyware and AV software that runs at every start-up.
>
> I have one certain situation where I use the laptop on a regular basis
> in which I will never need the WiFi and anti-malware software to run.
> I'd like to create a start-up profile that does not include these so I
> don't have to wait until everyone finishes their scans and checks and
> connection attempts before I can have my machine back!!
>
> Is it easy enough to create a separate profile that would do this? Or
> would I need to investigate smoe kind of script that would toggle
> these? (Also, as part of this one specific use, I use the laptop's
> video driver to rotate the screen 90 degrees to the right so I can use
> the machine open and on its left edge. It's almost a perfect 8 1/2 x
> 11 that way. It would be great if I could include this rotation in
> the start-up profile - just one less thing to do manually.)
>
> Ed