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To: The Philosopher who wrote (38924)	1/20/2004 8:40:52 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110631

That's just your Winamp media player. It has no value in startup except maintaining file associations if a competing program tries to take them over. No bigee. Disable it. For any other info about what startup programs do and what to do about them, I use this site. answersthatwork.com In addition to the earlier suggestions let me steal a method that Bruce Thompson uses on the IHUB Dream Machine thread. Anything else you are not sure about, just post them here and we'll see if we can help you out. For a good starting point about what's running you can go to pcpitstop.com and run the tests. When you finish, there is a link to "Windows details" that will show you what's running and give you links to info about them. On the results page is a tech express link. Go there and copy the url in the yellow box near the top of the page and paste it into a message here and we can see what's running on your machine. It will look like this: pcpitstop.com