Mark,

I went looking through my computer for the little program I used for a while to lighten the load on the Start Menu, and have tracked down the original web site for it. There is a little freeware program called Startup Control Panel that lets you pick and choose the programs that may start in your start menu. I cleaned mine out, but I cleaned a bit too much and I've never been able to get my handy (but slow to load) Windows Office Shortcut bar to load automatically again. I have it as an icon so I can still load it, but be careful with this program--it really does work and sometimes you can trim more from the menu than you planned.

Maggie