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I Have a question...When you start your computer you know all the programs
that all come up how can I change it so that not sooo many programs come up?
I dont even use have the ones that come up and I click exit but I know theres
a way that you can do it so that they dont popup everytime you start your
computer but I forget how. Please let me know if you know how to do it. Thanks
 
Read the first paragraph.

The article is for *all* Windows versions.


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I Have a question...When you start your computer you know all the programs
that all come up how can I change it so that not sooo many programs come up?
I dont even use have the ones that come up and I click exit but I know theres
a way that you can do it so that they dont popup everytime you start your
computer but I forget how. Please let me know if you know how to do it. Thanks
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In most cases, with "well-mannered" applications, it's usually as
simple as opening the undesired program and deselecting the option to
"display icon in the system tray" or to "start when Windows starts."

Additionally, Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up and C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up folders, and in the
system registry, primarily in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560

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LOST said:
I Have a question...When you start your computer you know all
the
programs that all come up how can I change it so that not sooo
many
programs come up? I dont even use have the ones that come up
and I
click exit but I know theres a way that you can do it so that
they
dont popup everytime you start your computer but I forget how.
Please
let me know if you know how to do it. Thanks
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On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start. Many can easily
and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG
from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the
programs you don't want to start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose
of running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many
people tell you, you should be concerned, not with how many of
these programs you run, but which. Some of them can hurt
performance severely, but others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you
should do is determine what each program is, what its value is to
you, and what the cost in performance is of its running all the
time. You can get more information about these with at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent
informed decision about what you want to keep and what you want
to get rid of.
 
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