If you have Win 98 or higher you can go to start/run, type msconfig in the command line, then click OK or hit your enter key.  Go to the startup tab on the dialog box.  You can then uncheck the boxes of the programs you don't want to run at startup.  Click apply, and OK then you'll get a message that you need to restart for the changes to take effect.  You can restart or you can wait until the next time you fire up.  On restart you should see fewer little icons in your system tray.



>I have a very slow startup speed, and I understand that part of my problem is
>that I have too many things on my start-up menu. My PC is a five year old HP
>Pavilion 8250, and I've also been told that my system resourses should be at
>90%. They are currently about 64%. How do I keep things from automatically
>starting up without using safe mode? I also use AOL 7.0, and I've not had
>problems before, just since I downloaded the 7.0 version.  I sometimes get
>the message ""Work Offline" with a description that I'm not currently signed
>on to the internet (which I am) and try again, and I get a lot of "Page
>Cannot Be Displayed" and "Action Cancelled." My problem is, I don't know how
>to stop all these programs that I don't need from starting automatically, as
>I'm not really computer literate. I would appreciate any help I can get.
>Thanks.
>Vicki Funk
>
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