Help Needed - Suggestions on Which Applications Can be Un-Checked (as listed by: MsConfig.exe app

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Help Needed - Suggestions on Which Applications Can be
Un-Checked (as listed by: MsConfig.exe application) for Windows -
XP Pro
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I installed Windows XP Professional on my unit and then ran the
MsConfig.exe file, to check which processes / applications got
loaded at Start-Up. The list is too big and quite difficult to
figure
out as to which items are good and which are useless.

I have created a WordPad file, wherein image files of Screens
have been pasted. The two files are


MSConfig (Start-up items), Win 98 Pro, File 1.rtf
5,689,450 bytes

MSConfig (Start-up items), Win 98 Pro, File 2.rtf
4,734,281 bytes

and then zipped to:
ConfigXP.zip
229,526 bytes


Note:

1 The list included installation of Symantec AntiVirus + Norton
Utilities program, which have few enteries in both the tabs.

2 This computer is not connected to internet

3 In Start-Up / Last Tab, item # 2 and 3 are for Mouse software,
Item 4 is for Display Driver, Item 5 & 6 are for Norton Utilities
and Item 7 is by: Roxio Easy CD Creator


The above file can be downloaded from following URL:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz7/greatbargain9/configxp.zip


I will greatly appreciate, if members can suggest as to which items
can be un-checked (that is stoped from running), for computers which
have

A: Have no internet service (that is: the subject Computer)

B: Is to be connected to Internet, using DSL modem

C: Is to be connected to Internet via Network Card, Network
Router (that is: NIC plus LAN) and then to Internet
through DSL modem


All Configurations will be for a Single User

Needless to say, I have absolutely no interest in using MSN
Network, Windows Media Player, Automatic Update of O/S, Remote
Management of Hard Disk and User Access Control, Joy Stick, Play
Games and and other such applications


Thanks


Frank Gatta

 

[Ron Badour]

What I do is use google to identify each unknown application that is running
and then use that information to decide whether or not to disable it.
Unless an application will be used in each computer session, I do not want
it starting at boot but that's just my personal preference.

 

[kenkcj]

This is the same thing that I do, unless its something that I can tell
outright that I don't need, I take the application name, type it into a
search engine and it'll give a few sites that will tell you what its used
for and whether or not it can/should be disabled. The domain I usually look
for is liutilities.com as they generally have just a summary for a quick
glance. Best of luck Frank.

 

[Rob]

You might also use Process Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/
sysinternals/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx) as a compliment to
msconfig.
-Rob