shutting down all programes for games

[vanguard-ace]

first of all hi to you all my first post.

ok the problem is i used to be able in me to run msconfig and shut all my progs down to allow quicker gaming but in xp its the task manager. i dont know what i can take off safely can anyone please tell me what i should have left in this manager to allow the quickest setup for games
thanks

 

[DrX]

You can turn off anything in your systray

Grab this http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

install it , go to control panel and select "Classic view"

then click on the applet called startup... there you can see all the programs running

its really good

also msconfig does work in XP

 

[vanguard-ace]

thanks man
p.s. msconfig doesnt seem to work for me

 

[vanguard-ace]

oh it did work strange.
trouble is i dont know what is safe and what isnt to turn off for games

 

[max]

You can turn OFF all the stuff in your SYStray (next to the clock)

The only thing i have running is Norton Antivirus , and i disable that before a game

msconfig doesnt work for me either

But You will love StartUPCPL

its a fantastic app .... but you do need to swtch control panel to classic view to see the applet to use it