At 4/12/2000 07:43 PM -0700, you wrote: >Under the startup tab at the top, you will get a list of all the programs >running in the back ground. > >There can easily be 20 or 30 programs if you are using Win98, and have >added several programs. Several will leave things around even though you >may have used add/remove programs control panel to remove them. Each of >these use resources from all three of the main stacks called >resources. You can remove the check mark in the square box to no longer >run the selected program if you want to get rid of it. > >Jack I have 23 items in the startup tab: Taskbar Display Controls Scan Registry Task Monitor System Tray Load Power Profile (in there twice) VsecomrEXE (Plus virusscan) vshwin32EXE (McAfee Virus Scan) (in there twice) avconsoleEXE (McAfee Virus Scan) VsStatEXE (McAfee Virus Scan) McAfeeWebScanX (McAfee Virus Scan) Norton Navigator TimeSink Ad Client (what is this???) DSS (Windows\BBStore\DSS\DSSAgent.exe - what is this?) Scheduling agent *ICQ Net Detect Agent ICQ Plus *Office Startup *AOL IM *MS Office Shortcut Bar *MS Outlook *Resource Meter (*these are the only 6 items in my startup folder) I'm running Windows 98 on a Pentium 200. How can I know what I can safely uncheck and what needs to be there? Sandy Walroth [email protected]