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What are your choices when you click the right hand mouse button. Please
verify that this is really what you want to do!
 
yes i want to do this stuff make xp faster
Bob said:
What are your choices when you click the right hand mouse button. Please
verify that this is really what you want to do!
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TBLUHP said:
how do you delete the start up items and task bar things?
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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
 
TBLUHP said:
how do you delete the start up items and task bar things?
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In most cases, with "well-mannered" and properly designed
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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Bob said:
Then use the righthand mouse button.
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Huh? How could that possibly help?



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That typically opens the menu allowing one to open the offending
programs setup and make the adjustment or in the case of the startup
folder shortcuts "delete" is offered. But you know that. The OP should
at least look.
 
Bob said:
That typically opens the menu allowing one to open the offending
programs setup and make the adjustment or in the case of the startup
folder shortcuts "delete" is offered. But you know that. The OP should
at least look.
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Ah! I see where you're going, now. It was clear just where the cursor
was to be locating when clicking the right button, nor did you mention
what to do afterwards.

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