Startup

How can you tell what's running at startup and what is the correct way to disable items that are not needed to run?

Thanks,
T.Blue

 

Download CCleaner here from MajorGeeks it has a great startup manager and tells you what loads at startup and you can disable and remove anything you dont need.

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4191

 

I prefer a stand-alone program like CodeStuff Startup, to the CCleaner one.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Starter.shtml

Much more purty, and easier to use, IMHO. Bazza

PS: Not available via MG downloads, so that is why I have shown the above link. Bazza

 

Thanks for the Post TBlue, as I am a bit puzzleous of this myself.
My 'old' putey of last week running loads of stuff and XP Pro only had 28 things running in Task Manager on a day to day basis.
My New putey has 34 things running.
I'd like to use CCleaner or CodeStuff but just don't know which programs I don't need.... how does one know as they all have such quasie-meaningful names?
Thanks

 

Check your startup programs with the list given on this site and it should help you
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

 

Hey BladesofHalo !! That 'sysinfo' site is the ants-pants ! Great.
Late at night now but will give it a good study tomoz.
Thanks mate.
JS

 

Hey all,
Thanks for the info. I will have to check out that sight also, as some of the things that are showing to be running I dont know if I need them to be or not.

Thanks again,
T.Blue

 

Anytime fellow geek