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help me said:
hi, just wondering how do u go about deleting some programmes that
appear in the right hand bottom corner of the toolbar so that
everytime you turn on the computer they don't run too. it would make
turning my computer on so much quicker. any help would be
appreciated.
First, note that the area you are talking about is officially
called the System Notification Area, but more commonly called the
"System Tray."
On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start. Many can easily
and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG
from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the
programs you don't want to start automatically.
However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this for the purpose you
stated. Most of us boot only once a day or so, and it makes no
sense to save a extra minute or two booting by getting rid of
something that may be valuable to you.
However, some (but not all) of these programs, not only take time
to start, but can impact your performance all day long. 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.
