I hit the send button too fast.
To paraphrase MS-MVP Ken Blake who answers this question on a somewhat
regular basis, "it's not so much how many programs you have running at
start-up, but rather *what* they are". A good example might be if a lot of
your computer work is offline, and you seldom use the internet, you may
*not* want a firewall starting every time you boot. Choose carefully what
really *needs* to be there at startup to suit *your* computing needs.
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HTH,
Curt
Windows Support Center
www.aumha.org
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| My XP system runs too many programs at startup. Most of these were
downloads
| that have somehow lodged themselves in the startup script. How do I
control
| what programs start to run automatically at startup?
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