Deleting obselete processes that load on startup

[Guest]

I've not long changed my CPU and increased my memory to 1 GB, but my PC is
still pretty sluggish on start up. I havce a hunch that it is down to
numerous background processes that run on start-up that are obselete. Is
there a way of editting which processes load on start up? Or how can I delete
old ones without deleting important ones? Also, can anyone point me in the
direction of a website that lists critical windows processes???

Hope someone can help. Many thanks in advance?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Donny Broome]

I use a free program called 'Autoruns' to eliminate unwanted items from
startup. You can download it for free from the author's site, here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html . Additionally, here is
a thorough guide to Windows XP processes. You may be able to safely turn off
a few processes that you're not using: http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12


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