Upon running HiJack This you will get to the screen shown below. Want you want to do here is click on 'Do a system scan only'. This will scan your PC for startup programs, located in the registry, startup folders, etc. Basically this will return a list of programs that start when your computer starts up. We want to see this information so we can identify bad things and remove them.
We will now have a screen similar to what is shown below. This is where it gets a little difficult because bad programs don't exactly pop up and say 'I'm bad, remove me'. However some of them do give good clues. Here are a few.
Keep in mind these are only a few and you have to be careful not to remove something you need, because unlike msconfig there is no going back after you remove an entry.
Tom Fitzgerald, CCNA, MCSA
Certified Computer Experts, Inc.
www.CCExperts.com