Windows Xp question.

JackDee · Dec 15, 2003

Any tec gurus here know how i can disable a few programs from loading on windows startup. There used to be a utility allowing you to do that somewhere in windows system tools in previous windows versions, can't find anything in this one.

thanks.

Jack.

BillDozer · Dec 15, 2003

are ou talkiong about

START>run>msconfig>startup for things running in the background?

truthteller · Dec 15, 2003

Go to RUN, type in msconfig.Click the Startup tab, and uncheck what you don't want to start up.

JackDee · Dec 15, 2003

you guys are great, you don't know for how long i ve trying to find the damn thing...

i finally manage to turn off all the useless shit flogging my pc.

thanks a lot.

TheOldBallgame · Dec 15, 2003

Be careful what you uncheck.

Actually, you could uncheck almost everything from the startup menu and Windows would still load and function, but some things may be needed to use certain programs or run certain hardware efficiently.

My advice if you don't know what a process does is to Go to this site and check and see what the process does. If it isn't listed on that site, go to Google and type in the full name and browse the results.

JackDee · Dec 16, 2003

cheers ballgame, will do that man, plenty of stuff that one can easily figure out what their function is, like windows auto update (man, did i want to get rid of that bastard ms function) but a lot there that i got no idea what their use is, so this site should be of some help.

thanks again.