Try running a search at google.com and find out what the programs associated with those are. Then you can decide if you need them at startup or not. Or you could do the one at a time to see if there is any impact on your system and programs. Start/Run/msconfig. Then start at the top of the list and uncheck one thing. Reboot, check your system and programs. Start/Run/msconfig and recheck the first one, then uncheck the next, repeat, repeat, etc etc etc

Some programs in your startup are specific to the programs you have installed on your specific system.

Mister Bill

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Stupidity is fatal,
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Thank you. I have two yellow legal pads and i am ready to check, check, check.

Thank you

Hi,

navapw32 is Norton AntiVirus AutoProtect--your background AV scan app. Leave checked unless you are able to remember to enable it without fail each time you collect, open, and process e-mail, and each time you download, open, and process files from the internet. In addition, to disable AutoProtect, do it using the icon in youyr system tray--right-click it and choose to disable AutoProtect from the context menu which appears. If you end task on it using either the Close Programs app or by using EndItAll or one of the other close program utilities, then the system may hang at shutdown if AutoProtect is not restarted.

ststray--is this systray? If so, then it is System Tray, your taskbar. Leave enabled if this is systray.

rnaapp--dialup networking. Best to leave enabled; it disables itself when it's finished with the background work it needs to do. rnaapp.exe will not show up on the msconfig | Starttup tab list, since it runs only when Remote Access Networking App is needed. The other two you mention that I know, systray (if that's what your Close Programs box is showing) does not always show up on the Startup list either (most of the time, it does, if you have it installed), and navapw32 does. If either are there, handle them on that Startup list and when using the Close Programs app accordingly; I leave them checked on the list, and enabled in the Close Programs app.

I don't know any of the others, I'm afraid, but if you look to the right of the filename in msconfig | Startup tab, is there a path statement available to you? This sometimes helps to isolate the application launching the background run.


By using the Close Programs utility, you understand that you are ending task for just this boot, not permanently, OK? To permanently end in terms of programs running in the background you clean off the msconfig | Startup tab list and the Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp list.

HTH,

Kay