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To: shadowman who wrote (36773)	9/18/2003 9:31:52 AM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 110652

Not a bad explanation of the use of msconfig..controlling start-up and background apps. A Jolt of Caffeine for the Sluggish PC By HOWARD MILLMAN CHRISTINA CORNISH-LAURIA was perplexed by a gradual but noticeable decline in her computer's performance. Ms. Cornish-Lauria, the executive director of a nonprofit group, regularly ran one utility that defragmented the hard drive and another that updated her antivirus software. Nonetheless, over the course of six months the PC's performance continued to deteriorate. It was taking longer to boot, and applications ran with a serene indifference to her deadlines. Finally, when Web pages with information that she needed to do her job failed to load completely, Ms. Cornish-Lauria started searching for the cause of her PC's misbehavior. nytimes.com