

In the lower-right corner, look at the System Tray (you may need to click the arrow to expand it). Programs like this hog bandwidth and kill boot times. During this past two years I have never once wished for a printer update - how did it know? There is only one explanation: For the past two years, a program that does nothing but look for updates has been running. The other day my laptop booted and bugged me about a printer update. Windows 7 Streamline Start Menus (Organizing the Start Menu)

This article was written for Windows 7, Vista and XP and was updated on 2011.07.

Howto: This article discusses how to use MSConfig to cleanup a computer's startup programs, providing faster boot times, less memory, faster computers, with less junk.
