Programmes at startup-What are they?

B

Blair

I have 19 programmes listed as start-up itemsand would like to reduce the
number but I am not sure what most of them are.Could someone give me a clue
where to look up or tell me what they are.
sgtray
jusched
igfxtray
hkcmd
tfswctrl
ccregVfy
ccApp
bcmsmmsg
dumprep 0-k
true image monitor***
schcaphlp
pct spk
ctfmon
instalstub
picCent
Digital line detect
Epson Status monitor***
n main
wkscal

The ones marked *** are known to me.
Blair
 
G

Guest

I tossed a few of these at Google and came up with
answers for each. If you can't find any of them there,
take a look at the directories they're loaded from.
 
W

Will Denny

Hi

From Start>Run type

msconfig

then click on the startup tab. Uncheck any entries in there that you don't
want starting up with Windows, then reboot your system.
 
K

Ken Blake

In
Blair said:
I have 19 programmes listed as start-up itemsand would like to
reduce
the number but I am not sure what most of them are.Could
someone give
me a clue where to look up or tell me what they are.
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You've already gotten answers to your question. I wanted to add
the following caveat:
I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of running the minimum
number of programs. Despite what many people tell you, you should
be concerned, not with how many of these programs you run, but
which. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but others
have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you
should do is determine what each program is, what its value is to
you, and what the cost in performance is of its running all the
time. You can get more information about these with google
searches and by asking about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent
informed decision about what you want to keep and what you want
to get rid of.
 
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