This is a dandy little freeware that defines what is truly in startup
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html Anna J & K Sindberg wrote:
Bill and LUGers, In my case Legacy is okay after a lockup. No blank screen I have 3 PCs, 2 w/ MS Windows XP Home and a 5 year old w/ ME. The older (1 yr old) XP has the lockup problem. The other 2 pcs can stay up much longer before acting up. The 'bad' pc is a desktop w/ 2.8GHz processor. The good XP is a notebook w/ 1.3GHz processor. The notebook starts up much faster. Its Welcome splash screen stays up only for a second or 2, while the 'bad' pc's stays up for a minute or more. This "bad" pc also fails when attempting large downloads. The notebook does large downloads just fine, whether connected directly to router or wifi. There is something bad in the background, but what it is, I don't know. Zone Alarm Pro is installed on the desktop. Zone Alarm (free version) is installed on the other 2. I have 2 anti spy ware programs, Ad-Aware and SpyBot. They haven't found the cause. Some anti spy ware companys have had agreements with some ad ware companys, not to find their programs. I have Norton System Works Pro and run it allot. No luck. I think I should try an online virus checker. I may have something that got by Norton. The startup group has been weeded. see http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php I use Registry First Aid. Again no luck, but it does show a lot more bad registry entries than it shows on the other 2 pcs. But it cautions against removing them. I am not expert enough to experiment here. I followed some of the advice given in www.blackviper.com pertaining on disabling services I don't use. Still no luck. The guy is a gamer, very sharp, likes his pc to run fast and efficiently, very approved by many gurus. I am not sure what I will do next. I may do a total operating system restore. That should get me back to normal, but backing up and restoring will take time. Or I may install a Linux operating system, since I have been told that Legacy works inside Win4Lin. These are both drastic solutions, but I think I will have to bite the bullet soon. Any help will be appreciated. JimS Senility is inherited from our children [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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