Okay, now I know this forum will yield awesome information even for the most frivolous of inquiries. I love it! Thanks!

p.s. I will keep the frivolity at a minimum; I hereby promise to the administrator!

I tried that out and found quite a few items I don't need in the Startup, however, one thing I unchecked (and don't ever use) was Win Messanger, which I've shut down (not signed in).

When I restarted, Win Mssgr came back.

Is there any way I can keep it out of my Startup items ?

I had the exact same problem and someone told me about "shoot the messenger." You can download it at
http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

That stopped my problem, along with Winpatrol where I removed it.

You can also try this:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/messenger_removal.htm

That's what I originally used to Remove Messenger (shoot the mssngr), and it is disabled (not signed in) but it's still in my Startup.

I'll give that other one a try !

Finally,a startup analyzer program that tells you IN ENGLISH what applications are doing what on your system ! Must have software definetly.

BOY! Am I dumb. There are three programs on the site. Which is the one you are talking about?

Thanks,
Jerry

If Starter could have the Consult feature that Startup Inspector has or if Startup Inspector added a Running Processes tab that utilized the Consult info they would be great.

Very very handy program. Awesome!

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Would I be correct in saying that the only difference between this and the SU program section of WinPatrol is that it shows descriptions ?

WinPatrol is wondeful so just trying to work out if I really need this program.

thank you for the list.

Great looking program but hasn't been updated since January 2007.

Does anyone know if the software is still being looked after and/or is still viable?

FWIW, I did download, install and execute the program. It only had 18 of my 38 startup processes in its database.

Don't shoot me - I know 38 is a huge number. I go on and off a network and most of the unknowns are related to the damn tablet feature of this laptop.