Can I remove some pgms @ startup?

Thanks, Messenger & netWaiting both had options for NOT starting - how
simple. --
Regards snerdly

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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:14:00 -0700, snerdly
> <snerdly.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I think I confused myslef. I realize AOL, Earthlink & other preinstalled
> > applications don't use RAM, please disregard that part.
>
>
>
> *All* applications use memory, and unless that memory hasn't been
> recently used (in which case it's in the page file) it's RAM. It has
> nothing to do with whether the application is preinstalled.
>
> Here's my standard post on autostarting programs:
>
> On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
> Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you
> actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon"
> option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't
> work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab,
> uncheck the programs you don't want to start automatically.
>
> However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
> running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
> you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
> you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
> others have no effect on performance.
>
> Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
> is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
> the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
> more information about these at
> http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,
> try google searches and ask about specifics here.
>
> Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
> decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of
>
> --
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"snerdly" wrote:

> ....
> Also a side bar: the P3 shows a ton of Optional software updates @
> Microsft's Update site like .net framework 1 thru 3, root certificates, smart
> card crytographic, etc. Do I really need these. .net framework is optional,
> should I remove that on the P4? Do I run anything using .net Framework(you
> are probably saying -how would I know?)? Info seems to indicate that it's
> for developers. Is .net using RAM?
> Sorry if this is too many questions for one post!
> --
> Regards snerdly

If you are using an RSS feed reader to automatically aggreate information
from the www....... then that requires .net.framework to run. At least, the
version of RSS that I use requires .net.framework to be installed.