Mark,

Get Autoruns from Sysinternals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Start this "As Administrator" and then look at what all is loading with your system. You can uncheck any program you dont want loading and, if that is still ok after re-booting, you can later on permanently remove the item if you so desire.


>hi all,
>i have been reasonably happy with vista. when i put it to sleep so it restarts faster i have to restart the network card and copying files is slower but all in all i'm a happy bunny. recently however i changed the startup programs, i stopped one from starting and now every few minutes a get a popup in the bottom right hand corner of the screen telling me that a startup program did not start, no matter how often i click on x it still keeps popping up, how do i stop it?
>~M