Bare Bones Stsrt Up

[John R]

With XP Home Edition I have run What's Running and this lists 24 items in
the Start Up panel. Is there a bare bones list that must be at start up?

 

[DL]

It depends on what you have installed, and what options/features you require
on the installed apps.
PS WinXP has msconfig.exe which shows startup items and other things

 

[Daave]

With XP Home Edition I have run What's Running and this lists 24
items in the Start Up panel. Is there a bare bones list that must be
at start up?

See http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

 

[Rock]

With XP Home Edition I have run What's Running and this lists 24 items in
the Start Up panel. Is there a bare bones list that must be at start up?

What exactly are you after? It's not how many processes that are running,
as much as what processes they are. Also it depends on what you mean by
bare bones. For example AV programs install services which are essential
for them to run and you should have an AV program running, but then again XP
will run fine without an AV Program.

There is a way to clean boot. You could do that and see what's running to
compare with what's running in your normal configuration.

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353

Here are some links you can use to research running processes to see what
they are.
www.google.com
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

If this info doesn't answer your question, then repost with a clearer
description of the issue.