Hello there; well, there are three ways of doing this. the first is; go into your system tray, and check to see if any of the programs running their, has, options/settings, not to run when computer starts, the second, is to go into, start menu/programs/startup and see what is their, and you can remove, third, you need to, go into, run, type msconfig, and, then, ctrl+tab to the startup page, here you can uncheck items at startup. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Mote To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 2:40 PM Subject: Need help with a simple windows problem. Hi folks. Got a question about the programs that load at start-up. Is there a way jaws users can find what programs are loading at start-up and disable them. Several programs are starting that I don't need, when my computer boots up. Thanks for the help.