re: Startup problem Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 1:03 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dave (2 messages posted) Thanks for your great assistance the people who responded. This was my first use of annoyances.org and I am well impressed. Cheers Dave On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 12:24 pm, gewg_ wrote: >|Click Start, Run and enter MSCONFIG >|Go to the Startup tab. >|You can disable items there, until you find the cause of the problem. >| trey > >To clarify trey's point: >Disable items **that you don't need**. >There are some things that must not be disabled. See below. > >He might have even taken it 1 step farther: >Disable everything EXCEPT what you **absolutely need** running at startup: >Explorer, Systray, Scan Registry, Anti-Virus, and Firewall. > >(There may be some other things on *your* box that NEED to be in SysTray, >but that is rare.) Written in response to: re: Startup problem (gewg_: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 12:24 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Startup problem (Dave: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 5:44 am) re: Startup problem (trey: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 9:30 am) re: Startup problem (gewg_: Wed, Jul 13, 2005, 12:24 pm) re: Startup problem (Dave: Thu, Jul 14, 2005, 1:03 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum