http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
With the increasing proliferation of scumware and other pestiliferous software, knowing what is going on in a Windows system when it starts up is crucial. However knowing what is going on requires additional information, which this site provides: an alphabetic index of startup entries [not] processes, including which ones are actually caused by a virus.
Another take on this, using the same information base classified in a different way, which may be just the way students will most easily understand it, is this site:
http://www.lafn.org/webconnect/mentor/startup/PENINDEX.HTM
This lists startups and executable programs with a direct link to each item mentioned.
Here is a startup application database which classifies starting programs into categories ranging from essential to dangerous:
http://www.greatis.com/regrun3appdatabase.htm
Posted by jho at October 21, 2003 05:43 PM