Hiya
What with your Roadrunner ISP, and my Coyote avatar.....
Anyway, the startup, then I'm off.
Webshots: Screensaver program that automatically downloads from the webshots web site. Not required
Microsoft Office Startup: Resource hog that launches common Microsoft Office components to help speed up the launch of Office programs. Osa9.exe is the Office 2000 equivalent. Some users claim there's no difference with our without it but it isn't required anyway
CleanSweep Smart Sweep-Internet Sweep: Automatic logging of installs from Norton CleanSweep - available via Start -> Programs - not required
ZoneAlarm: Keep, you're on all the time.
ScanRegistry: Keep
SystemTray: Keep
TaskMonitor: The Task Monitor the disk-access patterns of programs when they are started and stores this information in log files in the Applog folder. Task Monitor also records the number of times you use a program. The Disk Defragmenter tool uses this information to optimize your hard disk so that programs that you use frequently are loaded faster. Not required - but can be useful
NAV DefAlert: Norton Anti-Virus Definitions Alert. Warns you if virus definitions are out of date. You should update definitions on at least a weekly basis anyway if you use the internet regularly
Norton Auto-Protect: Keep
AtiPTA: Control panel for the ATI series of video cards allowing access to such features as display resolution, colour depth, etc. Available via Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Display - not required
HPSCANMonitor: HP scanning software that enables you to scan images from your scanner. Needed if you're using the scanner. If unavailable via Start -> Programs
StillImageMonitor: If your scanner does not have a button to initiate scanning you kill stimon. Even if it does have a button, you can still manually launch the scanning application. If unavailable via Start -> Programs
Norton eMail Protect: Proxy E-mail protection from Norton Anti-Virus. If you have it installed, leave it enabled to automatically check for suspect attachments in E-mails that may contain viruses. E-mails are scanned on a proxy server before being downloaded to your system
SO5 Integrator Pass Two: StarOffice 5
http://www.pathtech.org/staroffice/faq/faq.html Maybe keep.
POINTER: Your mouse
QuickTime Task: System Tray access to Apple's "Quick Time" viewer from version 5 onwards. Not required
Pop-Up Stopper: Keep
NPROTECT: Keep
SymTray: Keeps all System Tray icons for Norton SystemWorks together to reduce clutter. Optional
ScriptBlocking: Update to Norton AntiVirus 2001. Detects certain types of script-based viruses without the need for specific virus definitions - such as JavaScript and VBScript. This will help protect you from these viruses even before virus definitions are available
Machine Debug Manager: Used by developers for debugging. Those who have encountered it have unchecked it with no degradation in performance. Not required
TrueVector: Even if you don't have Zone Alarm run at start-up you do need this
MiniLog: Keep
SchedulingAgent: Microsoft Scheduling Agent displayed as a box with a stopwatch in the System Tray - only needed if you have regular scheduled disk defragmenting, ScanDisk, etc. Recommend you run these at regular intervals anyway so not needed as they can interrupt other programs
CSINJECT.EXE: Part of Quarterdeck/Norton CleanSweep -needed for CleanSweep Smart Sweep-Internet Sweep. Can start logging manually if this doesn't load when automatic monitoring is set. Not required
Okay, go to Run and type MSCONFIG, go to startup tab and uncheck all that you don't want. Apply and restart. if you're unsure with any, do them seperately, but Applying and Restarting each time.
Regards
eddie
