We dinna have the powerrrr! [shutting down unnecessary programs]

[bjornkeizers]

Hi all,

I was looking at my system tray just now, and I noticed there's an awful lot of crap in there. There's my hotsync, activesync, Quicktime, rex sync, and there's loads of other active processes that monitor this or that.

Is there any way to shut down some of this automatically using some third party tool? I had a utility way back when for Win 95 that'd let me shut down all my unneeded system tray junk, and thus free up a lot of wasted resources.

Anyone got any suggestions where I might find such a program for windows XP?

[SHoTTa35]

simply just cntrl + alt + del and that'll open the task manager. Click processes then select (highlight) the program then click end task. Keep activesync open.... just saves you time. Then go into MSCONFIG (click start, then run and type it) and go to the startup tab and uncheck em

[bjornkeizers]

Thanks! I just removed a couple unnecessary bits from my startup routine. That should speed things up a bit.