Check this page for some of those things and if they are needed.

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm


"Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I start up my laptop it takes about five minutes for everything to
> load.
> the last thing to appear is the Norton symbol. When I run msconfig there
> are alot of things i the startup folder. How do I know what I can disable
> to
> make it start up faster?