>Hi. I am on a notebook pc with Win 2000 Professional. Before I run any programs, I can ctrl-alt-del and my task manager contains 30 items. This makes boot-up a lenghthy event, to say the least about memory consumed.
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>I have tried to find out how to delete some of these items. Everyone says to "hack the registry", but that can be a problem if you don't know where you are going.

Have a look at this page: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci778742,00.html