Intended For Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95

There are several places that programs are listed to be run automatically at boot. The most obvious is your Startup folder in your Start menu - by looking at the properties of the icons in your Startup folder, you should be able to easily figure out what each one does. To stop a program from loading at boot, simply remove it's icon from the Startup folder.

The less obvious places for these programs to hide include the following:

• In your Registry, at the following locations:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ RunServices

Go to your start menu & click on "Run" type in MSCONFIG Hit Enter key or click ok.
Under the STARTUP Tab, check off the programs that you know are not needed to start automatically with the system boot up. Click on Apply & restart windows.
At the initial boot up you will get a pop up, telling you a change was made.
put a check mark in the box & click OK.