There are some programs, primarily QuickTime these days, that try to insert themselves into your quick start menu any time you get near them. Real used to be very pushy that way. I use WinPatrol (thanks, Bill D.!) and Spybot, both of which ask me if I want this program to put itself there. I tell them no, and keep working. There is also a tiny little program you can download from Mike Lin called Startup Control Panel that is literally loaded into the Control Panel. Open it in your Control Panel then go take a look at what is set up in your quick start area and you remove the bits that you don't want to be there. I don't use many of them often enough to make it worthwhile to spend the time waiting for them to pre-load when I turn on the computer. I'll click their desktop icon if I want to use them. I love that little program, and send a couple of bucks via PayPal each time I download it.

SRS