How to Delete Windows XP Start-Up Items

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Part of the video series: Windows XP Help

Summary: When a computer has too many start-up items, it may start slowly, so the user must go to their start menu, select "Run," and type in "msconfig." Restart a computer to put start-up changes into effect with help from an IT engineer in this free video on using Windows XP.

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"Hello. My name is Izabella and now I'm going to show you how to delete Windows XP startup items. When we have too many startup items, our system may start slowly. If you would like that Windows started faster, we have to, we have to delete these startup items. We go to start menu and there select run. And here you have to type in msconfig. Okay? Now in this window appearing, you can see several tabs like general, system.ini, win.ini and boot.ini and services, startup too. Now we need startup. So please click on that. And here we can see a list of startup items that are on your computer. You can select the ones that you would like to disable by unclicking the checked boxes. If you are finished with the selecting, click on apply. And then click on close. And now you must restart your computer for some of the changes made by the system configuration to take effect."

eHow Article: How to Delete Windows XP Start-Up Items