how do i get rid of programs in my start menu?
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I fully recommend the use of a program Crap Cleaner. Yes! That's the real name! You can download it from www.download.com. Reviews are the best. This program will make your computer fly! It will remove everything and more that you can't see. I discovered it a few months ago. It's free and you won't have to spend any money in expensive software that does not do anything. Download it and get that crap cleaned! (Including those "programs" in your start menu. They are just unused icons)\n\nGood luck..
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If you're using Windows XP: Try going to Start > Control Panel   > Add or Remove Programs\n\nIf the program is on the list, click it, click "Change/Remove", and follow the on-screen instructions.
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If you install a lot of programs, try the following to get rid of "startup items" that install themselves in your startup menu. \n\nGo to Start\nClick on RUN\nA little box will pop up - in it, type:   msconfig\nClick on the startup tab at the top\n\nThen unclick everything except your antivirus, spyware and system tools.  \n\nClick Apply\nClick OK\nAnd it will promt you to restart.  \n\nYou'll have all sorts of crap in there, such as Adobe updater and garbage that you can get rid of without fear of leaving your system vulnerable - and you'll get your speed back. \n\nGood luck!\n\nSpybot and those programs are good - but only if you have a virus.  I suggest you run spybot, and then try what I posted above.  Spybot will take system memory to run, too, causing your system to run even slower.
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To access your start up items, go to start-run and type msconfig. From there go to startup, and uncheck the installer program.
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i think you can get rid of them if you go to control panel then add/remove programmes
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most programs have a right clickable icon in system tray that gives option to turn off its starting up as a startup program. You can also remove the program from windows services.  ->control panel->administrative->services.  Disable them there and they don't take up valuable pc boot time.
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use regedit (Start->Run->regedit), search your program name in the regedit, find out related items in your registry and delete them. And then try again!
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go to add remove programs and get rid of it.
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click start-all programs-go into the start up folder-delete the my computer that is in there. this stop that from happening. good luck
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Go to Start menu and click on Run - type: msconfig - and press enter. Go to Start-up tab and disable the things you don't want to run at start up.  But be careful not to disable the important things needed to start you PC.
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Start>control panel>add/remove programs
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On your computer?\nGo to control panel----click on add/remove programs\nand click on the one(s) you want to get rid of
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there are a number of methods to stop those,\n1) go to start --> run --> type in msconfig.\nthen you can remove the start up items, and also you can remove the autoexec and config files from there.\n2) empty the start up folder. in programe files.\n3) the taskbar has some there, you can remove it from there.
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click on start then click run in the little box that comes up type msconfig when that window pops up go to startup tab and uncheck anything that you don't want running in the back ground.
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download ccleaner, it has an option to remove startup progs, and also celan out your computer and registry, great program, it is free, probably at download,com
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Open 'StartMenu ' folder - You can do this by exploring the folders.\n\nUnder 'Startmenu' find out what are the programmes scheduled for startup. Remove 'My computer' from startup folder, it would be fine.
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Go to Start/Run  \n\nType in msconfig\n\nThere's a startup tab, click that and uncheck whatever you want in that list.