What Are These?

[thxist]

I am running Windows Me and want to know what these items are and what their function is. They all start up at boot. Are they necessary to keep at startup? I mean, can I uncheck them in msconfig in the startup directory? If this helps, I have disabled system restore in the system/troubleshooting directory, as I don't want it running.:

Bwdelay
delay (or "delayrun.exe")
hpsysdrv
MMTray
PCHealth
*StateMgr
hpfsched
SSDPSRV
USBMMKBD
LoadPowerProfile
TaskMonitor

By the way, this is my first post. I love this forum. There seems to be so many people that know a whole lot about computers here. So, forgive me if my question is an easy one.

[SB]

Uncheck everything except load power profile then make sure your modem/scanner/printer and other stuff works. Don't worry you can play with it - what you uncheck will not dissapear on reboot - they are held in the reg.

[Radical Dreamer]

Load power profile is the thing that makes your monitor go off and hard disks shut down and stuff to power down when idle for too long

[LagMonster]

Here is what I would do. I don't take responsibility for any changes though.

Bwdelay - DISABLE
delay (or "delayrun.exe") - DISABLE
hpsysdrv - ?
MMTray - PROBABLY A KEYBOARD THING
PCHealth - TEMP MONITOR, I'd disble it
*StateMgr - DISABLE
hpfsched - DEFINATELY DISABLE FOR ME, I don't like schedulers.
SSDPSRV - ?
USBMMKBD - Keep this for your usb keyboard
LoadPowerProfile - KEEP
TaskMonitor - KEEP

:) :)

[thxist]

Thanks for the input guys. I would still like to know, however, WHAT these items are and what their function is. This way I will be informed enough in the future if I decide to prevent one or all of these items from starting up at boot. Different systems and system configurations require different tweaking arrangements. Therefore, I need to know what they are so that I can decide whether I need them or not in future, different setups.

[CJK]

hpsysdrv looks like an hp printer driver...do you have an hp printer installed? Did you use their software to install it...if so uninstall their software (piece of cr@p) and reinstall just the driver not all that fancy stuff that gets in the way.

[Miphnik]

MMTray = Places a Music Box icon in the sys tray. Application works well without it.

PCHealth = The part of ME which provides the Restore functionality.

StatMgr = Another of the ME Restore feature

SSPDSRV = Provides Simple Service Discovery Protocol and General Architecture (GENA) services for Plug and Play.

LoadPowerProfile = Required if you are using Power Management. Usually 2 instances of this.

TaskMonitor = Used by Windows to keep track of rate of usage of programs to make defragmenting more efficient.

HPsysdrv = I've been told this is part of the Restore function as well.

USBMMKBD = USB keyboard support

hpfsched = A program that pops up to remind you to register a new HP scanner/printer.

[thxist]

Ok folks. You have been more than helpful! I have found the description to all I have running except 2 things. Miphnik, thanks so much. For anyone wanting a great website to go to for this stuff, just visit this site: http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm It list TONS of startup items. I found it on the web after searching forever. However, there are 2 that I CANNOT FIND ANYHERE. Does anyone known what these are? They are:

Bwdelay
delay (or "delayrun.exe")

Again, thanks everyone! I really appreciate the help.

[imaeditedbysowulo]

Whatever they are, you probably don't need them. Try doing a search on your c: drive for the exact filenames it's calling (delayrun.exe) and look at the folder it is in. Maybe the name of the folder will give you a clue as to what program put it there.

Regardless, I think I would remove them from the startup group!

[Miphnik]

I agree with imarolan. I did some searching for delay.exe and the only thing I was coming up with was VBS related stuff. Based on that I'd disable it at the least if it were me.

[thxist]

Thanks for the input folks. I really appreciate it and will take your advice.