Useful Startup Information

I was curious about what some of the things running at startup were on my PC, and found this useful resource. Figured maybe it would help someone else too.

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

Useful, exhaustive list of possible startups, what they do, what installed them and whether they are necessary for your system to run. Also identifies possible spyware as well.

-Keisha

Good post Keisha, another thing you could do is boot into Windows (if you use it), go to the Run menu and type in msconfig, it gives yoyu a listing of your Win.ini, System.ini, and config.sys files which lists pretty much every process/service you have running.... A good program for this is StartUp Cop