Mary

Just about everything needs to be running. Vista handles background programs
fine. You can use Windows Defender's Software Explorer to disable the bad
programs like Creative's helper and tools--which really screw up Startup. You
can also see what is starting up and where it comes from in Software Explorer.

"Ghost Rider" wrote:

> not sure if this is for this group or not,
> just wondering what needs to and what doesn't need to be running in the
> background?
>
> t.i.a,
> ghost
>