Hi Mike, Go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information. Once that opens then select Tools, then System Configuration Utility. The Startup tab has most of the stuff you will see on the Task list. From the name of the directories you can figure out what some of it does. Try unchecking some of it and see what does not work when you reboot. You can always recheck it. It is a trial and error process. I think you will find that very little of it is critical to running your machine. AntiVirus stuff usually has 2 or 3 programs running. Also check out the Win.Ini tab. The very first folder, Windows, can set some programs to run also.
Best regards, Mike Young On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:46:38 -0500, MJS wrote: >Does anybody know all about the programs that are running in the background on >Win98? Are they all necessary? Is there a place to look that up? When I do a >3 finger salute, I see all sorts of programs running, even multiple times, and I >see these same files running on different computers, so I presume it is related >to the OS, but I don't know what is safe to turn off! > >Mike Sinclair > >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
