If they did that they would have a TON of windows updates to do plus likely all 3 service packs to deal with. Any of those items you listed try doing a google search for them and you will quickly find out what they belong to, or use a program like free start up lite by the makers of malwarebytes. StartUpLite avg= your antivirus is AVG? you do not want to stop that for sure. you can use a process library to find what each one is and does, what ever you do, DO NOT use a registry cleaner! if this is a dell then the dsca is a dell file C:\Program Files\Dell Support Center\gs_agent\custom\dsca.exe DSCA is Dell's remote-support app. If you're relying on Dell's remote-desktop support, do not delete it. but it does not need to be in your start up list. msseces.exe (Microsoft Security Essentials) are you using both AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials on your pc for Antivirus? if so you need to fully remove one of them you should only run one full time AV at a time that will cause conflicts. smax4pnp.exe (SoundMax controls) you can look up the rest of them there at the pcpitstop library if you want. another good free program that can help you with this kind of stuff is winpatrol WinPatrol

All I can tell you Carol is what I personally would do, everyone has their own opinions. I personally would not purchase the Shields Deluxe it has bad ratings and a bad reputation on many of the pro sites as well as by McAfee site advisor. I would actually be scared of what is might be phoning home and sending out from my computer. There are so many good free programs available or if you want to pay for one so that it is fully automatic there are good ones for that too. In fact that Superantispyware you just got has an option to purchase the full version which will have it run automatically and get the updates automatically so you do not have to remember to do it manually. What program do you have on your computer for anti-virus? That is something you must have and there are some very good ones free such as AVG and Avast! Let us know and if you need a good anti-virus program we can fix you up. this is one I highly suggest everyone should have on their computers no matter what else they have, it will not interfere with any of your other programs. Spywareblaster I will add the link for it. Here is what to do with it. When the program opens you will see on the left a button that says updates click on that then click on check for updates, you must be connected to the internet, it will find any updates and install them. Once it is done with that you will click on Protection button on the left, then click on enable all protection, the shield should now turn green showing you are protected. You MUST remember to once a week double click on the spywareblaster icon that will now be showing on your desktop and do this process to get all the new updates and enable them, it will not do it automatically. Just open it hit the update button, get the updates, then enable all protection. Should you want to pay the small price they ask you can get it to do everything automatically also. Definitely get spywareblaster! Here is a link that might be useful: spywareblaster

Messenger & MSN browser have check marks .. so they are installed. You sort of did things backwards. Just browse and expand that list and put a check mark next to your Games & they'll come back. As you notice more things that don't work.. browse that again and add checkmarks. Usually nothing in there is required - all sort of optional stuff that is enabled when it does have a check mark to the item wanted. So uncheck your messenger and MSN browser & they'll go away & use a few less memory and cpu resources and save a few drive bytes.

Ok this is simple now. Just use Google and type edit registry and millions of hits appear. Look through the first few and you will find many tutorials with good graphics showing step by step. You are nervous and rightly so because of all the warnings about messing up a registry. HOWEVER, this is nothing more than making a correction to a spelling error if you look at it that way. First time just go into the registry working down to the needed page. Once there you can walk away and grab a coffee if you feel stress, or you can make the simple correction to the one entry in question. Those of us who help others always need to stress the importance of caution in the registry because of those who are so impetuous. my ex son in law is a good example, he goes into a computer like a bull in a china shop. Luckily I do not have to clean up behind him anymore :) Now I have learned how to put stuff into a flash drive and save my files. Why? You are going to back up the registry as a precaution, nothing more. To save your work, assuming it is stored in My Documents. Insert the thumb drive, cancel the popup right click Start click Explore Now you see Windows Explorer opened Look near the top on the left side and right click on My Documnts click Properties in the pop up Look to see how large the My Documents folder is and if you have enough room on the thumb drive. We'll assume you have room. OK.... Click My Documents to highlight On the right side click the top item to highlight Hold down the Shift key and tap the End key now all the right side is highlighted right click anywhere on the highlighted data click Copy in the pop up Scroll down the left side now to find the thumb drive right click on it in the pop up click Paste and the contents are copied to your thumb drive - or any other drive you designate. Done! Simple huh?