How do you prevent certain programs from starting when you turn on the
computer?
I'm refering to the items that show in the taskbar. . .thanks in advance for
any help

use msconfig to disable startups...
check startup folder on your star menu ->all programs...

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DJaffy
L2TechSpec


"Ronald E. Foltz" wrote:

>
> How do you prevent certain programs from starting when you turn on the
> computer?
> I'm refering to the items that show in the taskbar. . .thanks in advance for
> any help
>
>
>

go to start>run>type msconfig>ok go to the startup tab, uncheck whatever
programs you dont want to run, hit ok and you will have to restart.

Also go to start>all programs>startup, there are some links there, delete
the one you dont want there

"Ronald E. Foltz" wrote:

>
> How do you prevent certain programs from starting when you turn on the
> computer?
> I'm refering to the items that show in the taskbar. . .thanks in advance for
> any help
>
>
>

Ronald E. Foltz wrote:

> How do you prevent certain programs from starting when you turn on the
> computer?
> I'm refering to the items that show in the taskbar. . .thanks in advance for
> any help
>
>

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\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunOnce

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

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

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

Ronald E. Foltz wrote:

> How do you prevent certain programs from starting when you turn on the
> computer?
> I'm refering to the items that show in the taskbar. .


First, note that you should be concerned with *all* programs that start
automatically, not just with those that go into the system tray. Not all
autostarting programs manifest themselves by an icon in the tray.

On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to
see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you actually choose the
option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon" option). 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 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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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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