Start Up Programs (XP Home)

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How to disable loading a program that will be loaded automatically into the system tray when computer is started?

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Start, Run, MSCONFIG. On the Startup tab, uncheck what you don’t want to run. BE VERY CAREFUL you don’t stop something if you’re not sure what it is!

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Thank you for the question and the reply. I was wondering how to perfom this same operation. I have an Artec Ultima 2000 scanner and when I downloaded/installed a new driver and their scanner software I also received a simple scan program that starts when I boot to Windows XP Home and a icon stays in the system tray.

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Ahhh… My scanner has the same little TSR it puts in the tray. Comes in very handy if you ever use the scanner as a “quick” copy machine. In my case, the scanner is on my “old” Win98 machine which doesn’t see much service, so I’ve not stopped the utility.

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Thanks! It seems the procedure is different from that on Win98.

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Dennis, I think if it were me, I’d open up the Task Manager and see what kind of resources the scanner TSR is using before I’d kill it off. If it isn’t a detriment to your system, you might want to make sure you don’t find some uses for it before you put it to bed.

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I did disable my TSR scanner program but a Windows XP dialog box popuped at the next reboot telling me that it was working in diagnostic mode and to change the settings back. Wnen I confirmed the settings without the scanner, on reboot WIndows XP reset itself and the scanner TSR was back.

I had to check the box on the dialog box stating I didn’t want to see that dialog baox again and I didn’t want to run in diagnositic mode

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