Computer newbies forum: Startup starts EVERYTHING

I did all that and find, after re-booting, that the startup tab in msconfig still shows everything ticked. Should this be so?
Bill

When you disable a service using the method I posted about, it does NOT change the check mark in MSCONFIG, but rather stops the service from ever loading unless you run services.msc again and reenable that service.

Just don't worry about what MSCONFIG reports.

You might like to try Autoruns.exe, originally from Sysinternals until Microsoft bought them and now from Microsoft themselves. Very easy to use and more comprehensive than some tools. You don't need to install it, just run it.

You also migth want to try going to admin tools services and setting the services you don't want to Manual startup and then stop them. Your system should then restart with the services available but not running.

However, Start/All Programs/Startup only shows those programs not in Windows that start upon boot. It does not show those services within Windows that start upon boot. The only reliable way to stop those services is to disable them by running services.msc as I suggested.

is to give your machine the three-fingered salute (CTRL-ALT-DELETE)immediately after you start it. That will start the Windows XP Task Manager. Then click on the various tabs to see what's running. If any of the entries are hard to figure out (as is likely), just enter them into your favorite search engine for an explanation.

Paul