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I've gone into MSConfig, gone to the startup tab and disabled everything I know I don't need, but there's still an awful lot of stuff that I don't know what it is, so I'm reluctant to remove it. Does anyone know if Windows puts vital programs/drivers into that Startup section?
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You can turn everything off there.
You'll only "need" (not really but they're good) to have three things running in the start-up in msconfig.
That's the antivirus program, what program do you use (if it's for example mcafee, have all programs staring with mc... enabled)?
And perhaps the volume icon, usually "systray". (Don't think this is needed in XP though), so that would make it two items)
And a firewall if you don't have a hardware firewall.
This will mean that you won't have any special keyboard functions etc.
But you can start by turning everything off, and then if you miss something, start them one by one, or post the list of the names here and tell us what functions you are missing and we'll tell you what to enable.
When people have problems with something in the autostart, I usually tell them to disable half of the items in msconfig, then do half and halfs until the problem is isolated, you can use that way aswell to see if there is anything you miss by disabling half of the items, if you miss nothing do the other half, if something bothers you, enable half of the disabled items and so on...
I belive AgentZero has answered the defrag and antivirus issues and it's not those...