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What programs do you run at startup?

Tango57

Senior member
just curious as to what programs people run at startup or in their taskbar. i currently run the following programs at startup:

1.) Avast antivirus -a pretty good, free antivirus program

2.) Norton Internet Security 2003

3.) Weather Watcher v5.4b -local weather stats updated every 5 mins., 14 day forecasting

4.) Statbar v2.406 -set to display my windows uptime, ram used/total available ram, cpu usage, hard disk sizes, networking traffic

5.) Naviscope 8.70 -atomic clock updates, best pop-up, ad-blocker, browser history.

6.) Leadtek Winfox 2 utility -overclocking utility for graphics card, displays gpu core temp, ambient temp, core & memory frequencies

7.) D-Color XP 1.0 Beta -for customized icons

8.) MBM5

9.) Webshots desktop

🙂
 
AIM
NAV
MSN Messenger (havent bothered removing it yet)
VNC
KPF (Kerio Personal Firewall)
HotSync
OpenOffice quickstart
QUICKTIME?!!?! (gotta remove that)
DPAD (Distributed computing)
 
Originally posted by: Tango57
just curious as to what programs people run at startup or in their taskbar. i currently run the following programs at startup:

1.) Avast antivirus -a pretty good, free antivirus program

2.) Norton Internet Security 2003

3.) Weather Watcher v5.4b -local weather stats updated every 5 mins., 14 day forecasting

4.) Statbar v2.406 -set to display my windows uptime, ram used/total available ram, cpu usage, hard disk sizes, networking traffic

5.) Naviscope 8.70 -atomic clock updates, best pop-up, ad-blocker, browser history.

6.) Leadtek Winfox 2 utility -overclocking utility for graphics card, displays gpu core temp, ambient temp, core & memory frequencies

7.) D-Color XP 1.0 Beta -for customized icons

8.) MBM5

9.) Webshots desktop

🙂

You like the Spyware huhh?

Well I don't. My list: AVG antivirus, Zone Alarm firewall. Thats all
 
Norton AntiVirus (ccapp, ccregvfy)
Intellipoint
RealOne Updater
Quicktime updater

The updaters for RealOne and QuickTime reset themselves everytime I use the programs, so unless I make a shutdown script, they're not going anywhere for a while.

By the way, how do you make a shutdown script?
 
Originally posted by: Bucksnort
You like the Spyware huhh?

well i allow a certain amout of spyware to run on my pc at times. lol, i run adware and spybot frequently to filter out the spyware junk.
😀
 
Originally posted by: Psych

The updaters for RealOne and QuickTime reset themselves everytime I use the programs, so unless I make a shutdown script, they're not going anywhere for a while.

By the way, how do you make a shutdown script?

good question 'cause i have the same problem with QuickTime. it's pretty annoying. hopefully someone can answer that for us.
 
Winkey
AVG
uICE

winkey and uIce greatly enhance the usability of yer system, while uIce technically can do everything winkey can, winkey is handier atm, and uIce is mainly used for my IR remote and volume controls using the numpad.
 
From Laptop: AVG Antivirus only but as stated I'm on my laptop at the moment and it's mostly used for Ultimate Bet poker, web, and some Yahoo chat.

Main Desktop: AVG Antivirus and some other stuff I can't remember. Will post later.
 
No taskbar but:
server runs-
sshd
sendmail
apache
portmap
inetd
bootparamd
dhcpd
nfsd

I don't think the other machines start quite so much...
 
Winamp Agent
nForce Tray Options
NVidia Settings
Winfast Wizard
Adobe Gamma Loader
Microsoft Office Startup
CoolSwitch
Quicktime Task
NeroCheck

I don't even have Quicktime icon in my tray, I wonder what the Quicktime Task does?
 
Originally posted by: Megatomic
I don't even have Quicktime icon in my tray, I wonder what the Quicktime Task does?

yeah we were wondering the same thing. it seems to start up after you run Quicktime. even if you uncheck the start on Windows option, if you run the program again that qttask shows up on startup.
😕
 
Sygate personal firewall
Bandwidth Monitor
Motherboard Monitor
VNC server
Find A Drug
Trillian
Hotsync
Wordweb
Fraps
 
Just NAV 04, the winamp agent, my router conifg utility, nForce Control Panel.
 
AVG
PCBOOST
AUDIO CALLER ID
NWIZ (nvidia system tray)

Background tasks:
ADBLOCKER(from tweakxp)
QTTASK (jesus can anyone tell me how to get rid of this? I keep disabling it and it keeps coming back)
CTFMON (apparently some system prog)
RIVATUNER
MSGPLUS (msn plus)
 
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