Goddamn computer...

[Tancred]

My computer has been acting really fucking slow for the past 2 months. It's really annoying. You need 15 gigs on your HD to defrag correctly. I only have 8 free but I'll delete a bunch of crap and defrag it. Hopefully it'll speed things up.

Another thing. You know how when you first turn your computer on a bunch of startup programs load? Well I have like 100 programs turning on the second my computer is on. Goddammit. I remember one time I was having driver problems and I called up DELL the dude also showed me how to go into safe mode and remove some programs that run immediately when you turn on your computer. The thing is I forgot. I was screwing around in safe mode last night but I couldn't find anything. Especially those icons near the clock. All the junk like AIM, MSN messenger, hell even Quicktime is there for some sort of reason. I don't remember the last time I used Quicktime. AIM and MSN... if I feel like using you I'll double click on the desktop shortcut instead of having you piss me off. So anyone know how to remove these things?

[SegNin]

If by remove, you mean not have those processes load into your comp every time you boot it:

Go to Start, Run, type msconfig, OK.

Now click the Startup tab.

The rest should be obvious.

[Mikey_]

or you can use something like RegCleaner to do the job.