Hi, I just bought a compac presario laptop and it seems to be fine,.. but I'm closing 
at least five or six unwanted pages and messages on start up; norton anti-virus; 
the "welcome center" (could they have gone any further in annoying the hell out of 
us?).... and the pc advisor. I've already disabled the systray message ballons, but 
to no avail -they're too persistant. I'd prefer not to activate my Norton anti-virus, 
but do I have to remove it altogether just to stop the messages? I'd like to start 
my computer and see nothing but my desktop and icons.

Thanks

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Hi Steven,

The Welcome Center will have a check box in the lower left corner that you can uncheck 
to stop it from running at startup.

You might double check in the program's settings for a option to not have them run 
at startup for the other messages at startup.

You can also look at the different Methods in OPTION TWO in this tutorial to see 
if these messages are listed with the startup programs list. If you determine that 
a listed program is, just disable it and test to see if it appears again at startup. 
 If it does, then just enable the listed program again.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/79612-startup-programs-enable-disable.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn
There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.

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Thanks Shawn, everything's fine. 

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Your welcome Steven. Glad to hear that everything is ok now.

Shawn
There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.

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