By coophead on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 01:26 am:

How do you turn off programs that you don't want to run in the back ground or shutdown completely til you need to use it? I have xp pro

By ejdodson on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 04:10 pm:

You should be able to do this by going from the start button, to "all programs" then to the "startup" pop up box, highlight which of the programs are shown in the startup list and delete whichever you do not want to automatically run when you restart.