The Windows systems have a lot of advantages and benefits compared to other systems, but because of too much functionalities, sometimes a new computing user, new meaning young, will not know what to do to control all these apps and powers of his or her system.
A problem might be generated by the Startup folder, which be default is empty, but who knows to manage to save a file there. Who else, if not the user who does not know too many things about computers? If a file is saved in that folder, it means that the file will be loaded immediately after the operating system was loaded. So, you will see how the file is opened on your desktop, how an application starts running, how a music track starts performing, how a movie presents its actors and so on. To avoid these situations, you have to disable the Startup items to run whenever you enter Windows.
Can you imagine the frustration of that user who sees that a file is permanently loaded when the computer starts up? He will eventually erase that file, without knowing that an easier way would have been to move that file into another folder and leave the Startup folder empty, as it should be.
The Startup folder can be found in the Program Files folder in C: . If you want to remove the items for good, you can click on every one of them and delete them separately or click on Ctrl-A to remove the files, without saving a copy of them somewhere else in your computer. If you do not want to delete the files, but only to move them, you can click on Cut and then Paste or Ctrl-V.
So, as you can read also in the article which I read on eHow this evening related to the disabling of the Startup items when the user loads the operating system, you cannot disable the Startup folder in another way than to remove the items that are stored in it. Don’t try to change the name of the folder, because it is created to have this name and even if you change it, the functionality will be the same.
