Windows XP Startup: Annoying Reminder

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Ant
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I have Windows XP Pro and I have been having problems at startup...

Well, its not so much a problem just a bit annoying! When I startup, 2 balloons (and an icon) pop up at the corner saying that 'Applications or Drivers Had To Be Disabled' but everything seems to be fine :?. Anyway, these things loading slows down my startup time by amount a minute and I was wondering if there was anyway to get rid of these things! :?:

Thanks :D

P.S. Love the new look! :P
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Chris
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Have you installed SP2?

PS - please reduce the amount of compression on your signature. It looks dreadful at the moment.
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Ant
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No I haven't installed SP2 yet (haven't had time!). I will as soon as I can.

EDIT Thats me fixed the signature now. Must have been editing it too much :oops:
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Chris
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Antz wrote:No I haven't installed SP2 yet (haven't had time!). I will as soon as I can.

Sorry bout my signature, i'll try and fix it now :)
I'd suggest you hold fire until issues with are fixed as it 'breaks' many programs due to the new "improvements" (that's if you can call them that).
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Ant
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nodnirG kraM wrote:Right-click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager.

Are there any bits of hardware with a big yellow warning triangle on them? They should already be unrolled on the tree and shouting at you on the screen!
No but I do remember occasionally it does say on the balloon that it is 'CD Recording Software'.

When I click it it says that it is Roxio. Now I've been looking through some CDs and I managed to find Easy CD Creator 4 (which is Roxio AFAIK).

I seem to remember installing it a while ago. I uninstalled it though cause I didn't work with XP (I had it originally with 98 ) but somehow it still thinks it is on the PC. :?
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Ant
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Any ideas how to get rid of this annoying thing?

:)
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FraserGJ
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This will remove all of v4/5 apparently (don't have ECDC 4 or 5)

Its a brute force method though so there are a lot of warnings :lol:

http://softwareupdates.roxio.com/gm/sup ... oxizap.exe
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Ant
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FraserGJ wrote:This will remove all of v4/5 apparently (don't have ECDC 4 or 5)

Its a brute force method though so there are a lot of warnings :lol:
Thanks very much! Startup a lot quicker now. :D.
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FraserGJ
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Antz wrote:
FraserGJ wrote:This will remove all of v4/5 apparently (don't have ECDC 4 or 5)

Its a brute force method though so there are a lot of warnings :lol:
Thanks very much! Startup a lot quicker now. :D.
My pleasure :D
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