Thank you for the tip!

George_c40;

Go to this site :http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

It is a list of those processes that are required on start up. There are actually very few of them, mostly dealing with anti-virus.

Type in the name of each process from msconfig-startup. It will search and tell you if its needed, not needed or your choice.

I have WinXP Home with great many programs. My startup list is only 4 items.

good luck

Michael

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@mdinnick wrote:
George_c40;

Go to this site :http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

It is a list of those processes that are required on start up. There are actually very few of them, mostly dealing with anti-virus.

Type in the name of each process from msconfig-startup. It will search and tell you if its needed, not needed or your choice.

I have WinXP Home with great many programs. My startup list is only 4 items.

good luck

Michael

Only 4?  How is that possible unless you aren't running a firewall and an Antivirus program?  My list is small, it has 19 items.

I think this is about items in the startup list in msconfig, not running processes. I have 12, but that includes several that are there only for convenience sake. The really essential ones are only 4: two for Norton AV, 1 for Zone Alarm and 1 for my USB DSL modem. I've moved another 9 from various apps to the run- key, using Spybot S&D's startup tool (better than deleting them as I can easily put them back in the run key should I ever want to).

Rick

I have the following in msconfig-startup

tfswctrl
hpqcmon
CAVTray
CAVRID

I have a .bmp of the startup tab, but I don't know how to attach it to this post

I have Windows firewall on and have CA's EZ Trust antivirus.

Mike