start up programs loading

[AMBER]

I need help on a couple of things:

How can I stop particular programs that I am not wanting
to use at start up from automatically loading. There are
so many of them, it takes forever for the cold boot to
finish.

I have some progams that I am currently using showing an
icon in the sys tray. When I finish using the program, I
right-click on the icon, and have the choice to "exit",
but I have noticed through the task bar list that they
are still running in the background, using up valuable
RAM, and pushing the CPU to 100% most of the time.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Amber

[Gummo]

Click on Start, then click on Run. Type msconfig and click OK. If you then
click on Startup, you will see all the programs you're looking for.

Gummo

"AMBER" > wrote in message
...
> I need help on a couple of things:
>
> How can I stop particular programs that I am not wanting
> to use at start up from automatically loading. There are
> so many of them, it takes forever for the cold boot to
> finish.
>
> I have some progams that I am currently using showing an
> icon in the sys tray. When I finish using the program, I
> right-click on the icon, and have the choice to "exit",
> but I have noticed through the task bar list that they
> are still running in the background, using up valuable
> RAM, and pushing the CPU to 100% most of the time.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Amber
>
>
>