Well, that was quite a read
Now, lets see if its any of your startup programs. I've encluded a description as well.
Creative Launcher: For Creative Soundblaster Live! series soundcards. Adds a quick-launch bar to the top of the display and a System Tray icon. Available via Start -> Programs - not required
AudioHQ: For Creative Soundblaster Live! series soundcards. System tray application for SB Live! functions. Available via Start -> Programs - not required
PCTVOICE: The program PCTVoice is used by the modem to interface with your computer and also used for some V.80 functions for Video Conferencing. if you remove it, it comes back. Its better to leave it
Adaptec DirectCD: Unless you have a CD-RW in the drive to drag and drop files to it you don't need DirectCD. Available via Start -> Programs - not required
wcmdmgr: It will periodically contact WildTangent servers to see if an update is available for your system and allows us to make the product exceptionally reliable. You can control its behavior, or disable it completely, inside your Windows Control Panel. Not required
SystemTray: keep
CountrySelection: Country selection for a PCtel HSP56 based modem. Often found in OEM (Dell,Compaq, HP, etc) systems for their modems included on the motherboard or as a seperate card. Once you've set the modem up to the chosen country it's not required
ScanRegistry: 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
PCHealth: WinME. This is a "scheduler" and does not turn off PC Health
Norton Auto-Protect: Norton Anti-Virus's background scanning process. Can be inconvenient because it scans files when Run/Opened or Downloaded/Created and you can scan files manually via right-click after downloading/copying. However, in light of some of the viruses around these days it's probably best to put up with the inconvenience
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 Warns you if virus definitions are out of date.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 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
AVGCtrl: Did you have AVG? Have you uninstalled it if you had?
MSConfigReminder: This is an entry that appears when you uncheck an item in the Startup group, and will disappear if on the next reboot you select the option to not be reminded that you are running in Selective Startup mode
LoadPowerProfile: Power management specifics such as monitor shut-off, system standby, etc. keep
devldr16.exe: Associated with Creative Labs sound cards. Provides audio support for DOS applications. Not needed if you don't have those.
CreateCD: Adaptec Easy CD Creator system tray application (pre version 5). Available via Start -> Programs - not required
Okay, for the ones you don't want, go to Run and type MSCONFIG. Startup tab. Uncheck the ones you don't want, apply and restart. If you're unsure, do each seperately. but apply and restart after each one.
You also have this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr
entVersion\Run]
"MSMSGS"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\MESSEN~1\\msmsgs.exe /background"
but its not in your startup. Did you ever have MSN Messenger? This is the registry entry for it that needs to be removed. But that may not be causing this.
Can you post the contents of your system.ini and I'll confirm that the drivers bit is in there.
No virus from what I can see, btw.
Regards
eddie
