Stop Applications running in background?

It's like Albert Franco II said: you need to disable them either using MSCONFIG or by removing them manually from the registry!

Believe me, you want to use MSCONFIG!

MSCONFIG is not available in Windows95 or NT
It is installed by default in Windows 98
Click Start,in the RUN box type in MSCONFIG,when the window opens,select the STARTUP tab,uncheck the boxes to disable the programs you donot want to load at Startup.

Maple - As with the previous answers, go to msconfig. Press Windows+ R keys. type in msconfig into Run box, click OK. Uncheck those Programs and Apps from the System Configuration Utility box that you do not want coming up at Start Up, click OK.If the SCU box does not offer you sufficient description of your programs then go to:

Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Information>(+)Software Enviorment>Running Tasks>MS System Info box. Here will be a little more description of your Start Ups.

Goto http://www.mchorse.com/nttools.htm and download autoruns.exe. This little program lists all the programs which start up when you run windows whether from startup, win.ini, etc. You can click on a button and it will go directly into the offending file or regedit and you can delete the keys you don't want. Just be careful what you delete.
Hope this helps
John
- Read your previous question first

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