Start up programs

[toonmilo]

Can anyone help? How do i get into the system of my pc and dictate which programs should and shouldn't start up automatically when i swith my pc on. There seems to be a lot of programs running in the background on start up which slow the process down, any help would be much appreciated, thanks

[blinkyblinky]

A great little program which has served me well for the last couple of years until today (see my post below) is here, free to download and easy to use:

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

It allows you to select and deselect what starts up at startup.

[Styles]

You can also select "Run" from the start menu and simply type "msconfig" in the box that appears. This will bring up a window, just select the startup tab and untick the items you do not want to load up.

[Zero]

Just to be thorough on this matter. For some reason Win 2k does not have msconfig, so you need to run regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->MICROSOFT->WINDOWS->CURRENTVERSION->RUN

You can then hack stuff outta the start up group from there