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    SZ Vista Startup RUN key really slim?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by twiga, Apr 13, 2007.

  1. twiga

    twiga Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone. I got the biz upg. DVD and am now happily running Vista Biz.

    After every installation, I always used to clean up "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" so that unnecessary programs were not running at startup.

    One question to all. In XP, my registry key at best could be slimmed down to at least 6-7 keys but I have slimmed my Vista to two. That is, Windows Defender and WMDC. Are you guys getting similar startup entries in the Registry Editor under this key

    What I am getting at is am I missing any startup features. Thanks.
     
    twiga, Apr 13, 2007
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  2. sp00n

    sp00n Notebook Deity

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    If you're installing a fresh copy of Windows on a formatted hard drive, you shouldn't have to prevent anything from starting up. I find that a clean Windows installation to be pretty lean.
     
    sp00n, Apr 13, 2007
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