Best way to create different start-ups?

[Guest Ed from AZ]

I have a Dell Latitude laptop running XP Pro SP2. It has WiFi,

firewall, spyware and AV software that runs at every start-up.

 

I have one certain situation where I use the laptop on a regular basis

in which I will never need the WiFi and anti-malware software to run.

I'd like to create a start-up profile that does not include these so I

don't have to wait until everyone finishes their scans and checks and

connection attempts before I can have my machine back!!

 

Is it easy enough to create a separate profile that would do this? Or

would I need to investigate smoe kind of script that would toggle

these? (Also, as part of this one specific use, I use the laptop's

video driver to rotate the screen 90 degrees to the right so I can use

the machine open and on its left edge. It's almost a perfect 8 1/2 x

11 that way. It would be great if I could include this rotation in

the start-up profile - just one less thing to do manually.)

 

Ed

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Best way to create different start-ups?

 

Look at Hardware Profiles, look in your Help files for more information.

 

John

 

Ed from AZ wrote:

> I have a Dell Latitude laptop running XP Pro SP2. It has WiFi,

> firewall, spyware and AV software that runs at every start-up.

>

> I have one certain situation where I use the laptop on a regular basis

> in which I will never need the WiFi and anti-malware software to run.

> I'd like to create a start-up profile that does not include these so I

> don't have to wait until everyone finishes their scans and checks and

> connection attempts before I can have my machine back!!

>

> Is it easy enough to create a separate profile that would do this? Or

> would I need to investigate smoe kind of script that would toggle

> these? (Also, as part of this one specific use, I use the laptop's

> video driver to rotate the screen 90 degrees to the right so I can use

> the machine open and on its left edge. It's almost a perfect 8 1/2 x

> 11 that way. It would be great if I could include this rotation in

> the start-up profile - just one less thing to do manually.)

>

> Ed