"System Tray icon used to change display settings change the clock rate and memory speed for nVidia based graphics cards. This is unnecessary since you can easily configure these settings the way you want them in the Display Properties and not have to mess with them again. Also disable the ""NVIDIA Driver Helper Service"" if enabled as it can cause this entry to be re-enabled on re-boot (note that this service can also cause extreme shutdown delays if enabled - see here)"
"nVidia's nForce Audio Processing Unit (APU)- ""provides 3D positional audio and DirectX 8.0 compatibility and encodes and decodes Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in real time"""
"NVidia System Utility (now nTune) lets you adjust bus speeds hardware voltages memory controller timings and fan speed as well as additional settings to increase performance aggressiveness and hardware voltages. Will also display a dynamic graph of CPU and system temperatures hardware voltages and memory bus speeds"
"Added by the AUTORUN-DV WORM! Note - this is not the legitimate lsass.exe process which is always located in %System% and should not normally figure in Msconfig/Startup! This one is located in a ~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~ subfolder"
"System Tray icon used to manage settings for nVidia based graphics cards. May be required for some 3D applications to recognize your card correctly - such as the game ""Everquest"". Otherwise settings can be changed manually via Display Properties"
"System Tray icon used to manage settings for nVidia based graphics cards. May be required for some 3D applications to recognize your card correctly - such as the game ""Everquest"". Otherwise settings can be changed manually via Display Properties"
"System Tray icon used to manage settings for nVidia based graphics cards. May be required for some 3D applications to recognize your card correctly - such as the game ""Everquest"". Otherwise settings can be changed manually via Display Properties"
"Network monitor for the Personal Video Recorder function of the NVIDIA ForceWare Multimedia application - ""makes sure you don?t miss your favorite show. If you won?t be home to watch the show just use the PVR to set future recordings"""
"System Tray icon used to manage settings for nVidia based graphics cards. May be required for some 3D applications to recognize your card correctly - such as the game ""Everquest"". Otherwise settings can be changed manually via Display Properties"
"nVidia NVRaid - hard disk striping/mirroring utility for increased performance and reliability. Doesn't seem to be required if you have a RAID setup as there is no performance difference without it"
NVIDIA Driver Helper Service - installed when you change from the WDM drivers to nVidia's latest versions but not requied. Extreme shutdown delays can be encountered with this service active but no adverse side effects with it disabled. NOTE: If using drivers other than nVidia's such as Asus this service may have been renamed to reflect that
"Added by the AGOBOT.ALX WORM! Note - this is not the valid NVIDIA Driver Helper Service and is located in the System (9x/Me) or System32 (NT/2K/XP) folder"
Nvidia nView Wizard - present with the newer versions of nVidia graphics cards drivers. Allows you to immensely improve desktop layouts by setting preferences and optimizations. If you use any of the special nView features available in the control panel leave this alone - otherwise you can disable it
"Added by the AKBOT.BA WORM! Note that rundll32.exe is a legitimate Microsoft file used to launch DLL file types and shouldn't be deleted. The ""nxgsvc.dll"" file is found in %System%"
"Added by the AKBOT.BD WORM! Note that rundll32.exe is a legitimate Microsoft file used to launch DLL file types and shouldn't be deleted. The ""nxosys.dll"" file is found in %System%"
"NetExpert - ""India's first ever automated Broadband care technology."" Identifies and automatically fixes typical problems that may occur with your high-speed internet service"
"Background process that establishes connection with a C3-1000 scanner and watch general status of the device and for scanner button presses. Can it be started manually?"
"Comes with HyperTextStudio. From the supplier - "The Osserver maintains the database for HyperText Studio projects - absolutely vital it verifies all the links etc in a site. It runs as a service in NT 2K and XP but needs to start up in Win 9.x so you'll see a DOS box for a short while during boot up.""
"Comes with HyperTextStudio. From the supplier - "The Osserver maintains the database for HyperText Studio projects - absolutely vital it verifies all the links etc in a site. It runs as a service in NT 2K and XP but needs to start up in Win 9.x so you'll see a DOS box for a short while during boot up.""
Optical Character Recognition software as part of OmniPage Limited Edition - supplied with some scanners. Scan directly into most word processor applications such as Word WordPerfect etc. Available via Start -> Programs
"G Data ""PC Spion"". PC monitoring and surveilling software captures all users activity on the PC see here. Disable/remove if you didn't install it yourself!"
"Xupiter OrbitExplorer toolbar related. Drive-by foistware. Use Spybot S&D Adware or similar to detect and remove and to prevent it re-installing in the future see here"
"noHTML for Outlook Express is an add-on that protects Outlook Express from email viruses and email scripts by converting incoming email messages from HTML format to simple text"
"Office Mail from Burrotech Ltd - ""complete email solution for small/medium businesses homes schools and colleges. It is a small email server which forms the perfect gateway between your internal and external email"""
Application which launches common MS Office components to help speed up the launch of Office programs. It's somewhat of a resource hog and some users claim there's no difference with or without it but it usually isn't required. Note - if you make use of the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar outside an office program this application will need to be enabled for it to show
Application which launches common MS Office components to help speed up the launch of Office programs. It's somewhat of a resource hog and some users claim there's no difference with or without it but it usually isn't required. Note - if you make use of the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar outside an office program this application will need to be enabled for it to show
"Added by the CLICKER-EC TROJAN! Note - this trojan is located in %Windir% and should not be confused with the Microsoft office program located in %Program Files%\Microsoft Office\Office"
"Keyboard utility for a Micro Innovations brand keyboard. If you disable this entry you will not be able to use any of the keyboard hotkeys or other non-standard functions on the keyboard"
DISCLAIMER: It is assumed that users are familiar with the operating
system they are using and comfortable with making the suggested changes. I will
not be held responsible if changes you make cause a system failure.
This is NOT a list of tasks/processes taken from Task Manager
or the Close Program window (CTRL+ALT+DEL) but a list of startup
applications, although you will find some of them listed via this method.
Pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL identifies programs that are currently running - not
necessarily at startup. For a list of tasks/processes you should try
WinTasks 5 Standard/Professional from LIUtilities or the list at
AnswersThatWork. Therefore, before ending a task/process via CTRL+ALT+DEL
just because it has an "X" recommendation, please check whether it's in MSCONFIG
or the registry first. An example would be "svchost.exe" - which doesn't appear
in either under normal conditions but does via CTRL+ALT+DEL. If in doubt, don't
do anything.