How to disable Zooming utility, smoothview, etc.?

Question

I have a Toshiba Satellite M105-S3084 running XP. I would like to disable some of the unnecessary utilities that start at startup and take up ram like Toshiba Zooming utility, CEEkey, etc.
How do I do this? and still have them available for manual starting?

Answer 1

There are lots of programs, that are delaying the startup of windows. Many of them are useless, some are necessary.
The easiest way to "stop" them from starting on their own, is through Microsoft's program: msiconfig.exe
In order to start it, do this:
1) Click on [START]
2) Select "Run..."
3) type into the box where it says OPEN: ---> msiconfig
A new program will pop up on your screen, in the top bar you can see the menu-option "Startup" <--- click on it ;)
Now you will see a list of applications, that start when your computer boots into Windows.
You can deselect the programs, that you don't want to startup on their own, but remember to leave the necessary ones.
If you are asking yourself now, "How do I know which ones are the safe ones to disable?",... then you should use Google
to investigate for you about the specific "Startup item" that is listed on your Laptop. Just search for it... (example: KHALMNPR.exe)
and some webpages will pop up telling you, that this is the mouse driver of Logitech bla bla bla...
One last note from me: If you want to disable Programs, that have settings inside of them "Enable during Startup on Windows" (like SKYPE),
then you will have to deselect this option within that application. If you just disable it from msiconfig, it will re-appear whenever you
manualy start that application.
Good luck
electrochain