HI Simon: under programmes, there should be a menu item called start up. hit enter on this and arrow up or down to the programme you want to remove press applications key or right click, whichever you prefer, then arrow to delete. hit enter on this and answer yes. this should remove the prog from start up. there is also a way of doing this from msconfig, but that is more difficult unless you know which programme the file paths refer to in the start up tab. hth Hope to hear from you soon. from Martin. Please email me at: m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx thanks. if you're interested in discussing everything soft toy animal related, please visit my group at: http://groups.msn.com/thesofttoyanimalcollectorsgroup please visit my website: www.martin-wilsher.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: goshawk To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: VICUG-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:17 AM Subject: [access-uk] removing programs from startup? hello list, does anyone know how to remove programs from the start-up group, so that they do not start when windows does? there are quite a few in my start-up group, that don't really need to be running at start-up, and are just hogging computer resources, but I can't seem to figure out how to remove them. I am using win98SE. Simon