Re: Windows Start Menu

Doug Miller wrote:
In article <1PWdnVpn8_rgS8_XnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, arnold.trembley@xxxxxxx wrote:
James J. Gavan wrote:
Not COBOL per se, but something we are all interested in.
(snip)
But there surely has to be an easier way without going to individual applications, to Add or Remove them from the Startup Menu. I either misunderstood what MS were saying, or their Help is badly worded. Any takers ?

Jimmy, Calgary AB
This is not necessarily easier, but there's quite a bit of useful and free information here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Windows-XP-Startup-Faster

Including some bad advice regarding clearing the prefetch folder.

Better advice available here: http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Doug, thanks for the link to XPMyths. There's a lot of good information there too.

Recently, my company laptop had some performance problems, and the two things that helped the most were 1) doubling the memory from 1 gig to 2 gig, and 2) defragging the hard disk with the built-in WinXP defragger (which is pretty slow).

I am generally avoid editing the registry, but Microsoft TweakUI for WinXP a handy tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


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