as above, my pc's running a bit sluggish so i thought i'd look to see what's running in the back ground, it came up with all sorts but i don't know what is needed and what is not. any help plz.
jimmy

You do not need most things in the startup menu. Only let things you want to load at startup (eg virus scanner, firewall etc). The rest you can do without.

Use this app to remove all unwanted startup items. http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

MSCONFIG does the same basic things and is already built-in to Windows.

Yes but msconfig only gives the startup options, while the program I give has

Startup (user) - the current user's Startup folder in the Start Menu.
Startup (common) - the common (all users) Startup folder in the Start Menu. Appears only on NT and multi-user Win9x systems.
HKLM / Run - the Run registry key located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. These apply for all users.
HKCU / Run - the Run registry key located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. These apply for the current user only.
Services - system services that are started before the user logs in. Does not appear on NT since it has its own Services control panel.
Run Once

Have you every actually run MSCONFIG? :blockhd: What do you think the Location column on the Startup TAB, or all the information on the Services tab in MSCONFIG meant?

It may not be as "Pretty" as StartupCPL but all the exact same information is in fact present in MSCONFIG.

Have you ever run MSCONFIG on NT or 2000?

Yes you can run msconfig on NT or 2000. But you will either need to download msconfig or you can get it off of windows 98 etc. Here is a site with all the info you will need to look & see what is needed & what is not at start up http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php

Good luck, if you need any help just ask :)

Originally posted by hood1971
Have you ever run MSCONFIG on NT or 2000?

Jimmy mumu has posted to these boards before, he runs Windows XP.

Windows NT or 2000 is irrelevent to the original question.