When I turn on my computor it takes forever to start up. about 2 minutes. How can I change the proccesses running in the backround? Is that what delays things?
Thanks, John

Hi John,

Your start up can be slow for several reasons and one of them can be too many startup items, its best to keep the list to only absolutely needed ones.
Here is a detailed link on how to disable startup items-
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

Heres a list of startup items
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html.

If you run many memory intensive programs and ur RAM is insufficient, that can be another reason.
If ur running low on HD space or the drive is badly fragmented ( it can be if you add and delete lots of files) that can slow down the boot. Run a disk clean up, remove junk.u cud also uninstall any programs u dont need.
Run chkdsk and defragment if this is the case. Doing this regularly can help improve performance.
http://www.microsoft.com/AtWork/getstarted/speed.mspx/

and..something really vital, are u sure the system isnt infected by spyware?
Delete prefetch
http://www.tweakxp.com/article36979.aspx

Hope this helps.

you need to be carefull when disabling startup items because if you acidently disable one, your computer may boot incorrectly, it is advisable to leave your anti-spyware/anti-virus/firewall enabled (if you have them) unless you want to manually start them each time you log on to your computer.

Mike