Microsoft Office Startup?

[TenaciousT]

I've been slowly learning how to tweak my system and one of the things I found that I don't understand is the "Microsoft Office" icon in the Startup folder of the start menu.

1) What does it do?

2) Is this useful?

3) Will removing from the startup folder do anything?

Thanks much.

 

[dbwillis]

You should remove it, I do on all my builds..I have not found anything that it does,...

 

[redbeard1]

The main thing it does is steal resources on boot up, so that word and excel can start a little faster. In a win2k/xp system it probably isn't a big deal. In win98, it lowers your free resources noticably.

 

[TenaciousT]

steal resources on boot up

'nuff said... *poof* and it was gone.

 

[TheCorm]

Yeah I kill that too, it's like Fast Find...on slower systems can really be a nuisance.

Jamie