Two more suggestions

Posted by Joe Power on 2009-12-26 20:34:46, Saturday
In reply to Programs runing in the background posted by scamp on 2009-12-26 00:11:47, Saturday

I've long been very impressed with Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel. It has a nice balance between ease of use and completeness. Install it and you will find a new applet in your control panel called Startup. This shows you all the items that launch at start-up and allow you to temporarily or permanently disable them.

Combine this with his StartupMonitor program (which alerts you whenever anything tries to put something in any of the startup locations and lets you decide whether or not to allow it) and you will have very little trouble with programs sneaking stuff by you.

When you become computer literate, you should consider Autoruns - a program by the Sysinternals folks. It gives an exhaustive list of things launching at start-up and gives you control over them. It isn't as user-friendly as SCP, but it goes into far greater detail.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

hope that helps

Joe Power

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Thanks, I think this is what I'm looking for - fidia 2010-01-16 02:35:10, Saturday (0)

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