XP Start Menu trick

[Leisha Wharfield]

I'm beginning to think that this maillist is not where I saw the trick. 
We're using one that I think is a bit advanced for our research 
assistants. I know there is a more superficial way that does not involve 
asking several inexpert users to run msconfig, but I can't find it.

In the meantime, here's the procedure we are using, from our wonderful 
computer geek, Mike Daniels:

"The built in method for turning off startup items is to go to
    > Start
    > Run
    > type in "msconfig"
    > click OK
    > choose startup tab
    > click deselect all
    > click apply
    > click OK to restart.

When the PC restarts it won't have extra things running in the 
background. A reminder comes up telling you that the startup has been 
altered. It looks complicated, but it goes pretty fast.

Mike"

Leisha

Shai Danziger wrote:

>Dear Leisha,
>
>Could you please send me the email once you get it. I would like to know how
>to do this as well. We work on PCs that seem to have a lot of things going
>on in the background which sometimes screws up my RT data collection.
>
>Shai
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf
>Of Leisha Wharfield
>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:08 AM
>To: 'E-Prime'
>Subject: XP Start Menu trick
>
>Hi,
>
>Someone had posted a quick & easy way to stop all the processes running 
>in the background on XP machines before launching an Eprime experiment. 
>I can't seem to find it in the archives. Could you post it again?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Leisha
>
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