First, check for any Notification Area icons that belong to the app/process in question. If you find anything see if it offers a Settings or Options choice in its menu. If it does, look to turn it off/disable it in there instead. Otherwise, use MSConfig to essentially do that same thing, just less eloquently. Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:11 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: SP3 >I would like to uncheck the Dell AIO printer thingy that starts up with my > computer as I do not use that printer, will that hurt anything, also the > Dell support alerts, not sure how to drop that one though. > > Christine --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe 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/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------