Start up delay after Desktop appears

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  1. MalcolmW
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    Sammydad1 said:
    use MSCONFIG and see whats being loaded in the Startup tab.... uncheck non-essential items...save reboot....
    Thank you for replying.

    MSCONFIG has two items under the start up tab; the F-Prot antivirus programme which is checked and a redundant programme, OMEA application, that is unchecked.
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  3. MalcolmW
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    darkdisturbed said:
    Is there anyway that I can stop sidebar from starting? or disable it al together?
    From the message from Joules:

    If the gadgets platform is causing that much of an issue then you can do this to it: Disable Sidebar / Desktop Gadgets on Windows 7 - How-To Geek
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