Posted: 3/3/2009 5:49:55 PM EDT
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One of my sons (currently still suspended by his thumbs) corrupted windows on the main PC the other day, and luckily Gateway has a restore option that saves data files while "restoring" the system. Ohmigawd I forgot just how many things were "free" when delivered. I'm pretty sure that most were erased when we got the computer. (My other boy worked at Best Buy at the time and a mutually known and trusted friend on the geek squad wiped off most of the crap for us for free) But restoring restored all of them.
Anyhow one of the things I had before and hadn't used for years was a startup manager that I could use to disable certain programs from starting at startup. Realtek keeps loading and running some kind of audio system set-up utility, everytime anybody starts their session (Win XP). I want to disable it because I'm not real sure that it isn't being used with something. And I did have it disabled before because I recognize the avatar. I'm tempted to remove it by using the control panel, but I don't want to have to go through the hassle of re-installing The startup manager I had, had been recommended by either Leo Laporte or Jeff Levy, but I can't find anything similar recommended on either site. Any freeware suggestions? I also reinstalled my Office 97 but Access is not loading because it can't find Visual Basic (something or other) Csn I get Visual Basic off the MS download site? I wouldn't mind having Access for creating a dbase for my model railroad stuff. But I can live without it, I'm using Excel for that now. |
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the first thing i would do on a fresh install is your windows updates.
a startup manager would be msconfig ?? http://www.hijackfree.com/en/ http://hijackthis.de/ use at your own risk. disabling the realtek device could cause all kinds of random issues with the computer. there should be an option in the program to hide the icon, thats what i would suggest |