programs at startup

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My computer takes a long time to boot up and I think part of the problem is
the number of program I have that start up upon my logging on. Can someone
tell me how to stop some programs from running in the background? Thanks so
much for your help
 
Start, Run type in msconfig in the panel named startup, uncheck any that
you don't need to start until you want them.
 
David said:
My computer takes a long time to boot up and I think part of the problem is
the number of program I have that start up upon my logging on. Can someone
tell me how to stop some programs from running in the background? Thanks so
much for your help
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First step should be to check in the options for the program you don't
want to start and see if there is a setting to tell it not to run at
startup. The next step is to remove any entries you don't want from the
two startup folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok


Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys
in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
 
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My computer takes a long time to boot up and I think part of the problem is
the number of program I have that start up upon my logging on. Can someone
tell me how to stop some programs from running in the background? Thanks so
much for your help
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Open the programs in question. Look for the config | setup tab or
whatever, and find the box to uncheck "start when windows starts" or
similiar lingo.
 
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