Hi Cristy, here are a couple of sites with list of programs/applications that may be= running; http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/services.htm Here is MajorGeeks copy of BlackVipers start up list; one of the best in my opinion; http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=3D12 I have 60 to 70 running processes in XP pro with 512meg of ram. Mike ~ one of the Moderators It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews http://www.mwn.ca/ ******* Mike's REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 8/6/2005 at 10:35 PM cristy wrote: Hi, I am having a problem on my "newer" computer the Dell. Basically seems its= been this way since I have had it for less than a year. Every program I seem to open, opens sooo slowly it drives me insane and sometimes the hour glass thing hangs and I have to end it. It happens on my microsoft word documents, my photo LE Suite program, even sometimes like opening a folder in a directory. I was thinking that something must be hogging my memory or= something maybe. I did the cntl, alt , delte and 46-47 processes are running. Is there a way for me to see what programs are starting up when I= cut the computer on and perhaps what I can rid of to speed up my computer? I have I think about 512 mg memory, something like that. thanks, cristy -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/