Good stuff Rick. Thank you cousin Rick. I sincerely appreciate the help.
If I just delete the items from the Startup folder, that will help. Is that correct? I'll take the other things step by step. This thing is moving like a drunken turtle. John Justice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:25 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: CLEANING UP THE START UP LIST WITH JAWS > > Hi John, > The first thing to do is, check the startup folder located under programs > in > the start menu. > There may be shortcuts there that can be eliminated. > Next, if these programs are showing up in the system tray, select them one > at a time , and see if you can get a context menu. > This may allow you to change the startup properties of the application. > If no go there, open each application, and look under items such as, > tools, > options, settings etc. > If none of these options work, then you will need to use msconfig. > In that case, type the following in the run dialogue: > msconfig > When msconfig opens, go to the startup tab, and uncheck the items you > don't > want to start. > Apply your changes, and close the msconfig, and re-boot the machine. > When the machine re-starts, you will have a dialogue telling you that you > have made changes to your system... > Tab to the checkbox, not to show this dialogue anymore, and then tab to > okay, and hit enter. > You are done. > HTH, > Richard Justice > www.blind-computing.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:54 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] CLEANING UP THE START UP LIST WITH JAWS > > > Hi group. > I have a question which combines both the use of Jaws and Windows XP. It > seems I have a lot of useless junk starting up when I turn on my computer. > Does anyone know a quick and relatively painless way of finding those > programs and relegating them to the "use only when require" status? > Naturally, I'm going to have to do this with Jaws. I'm sure that there's > a > way but I can't remember where to go. > You wouldn't believe the junk. I have things like Napster and Real Player > starting when I don't need them for normal operation. > Enough said, I think. Thanks in advance for any help that can be given. > > John Justice > My job feeds my family, music feeds my soul. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ In order to contact the management team simply fill out the following form found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/contact.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
