My Office install has settled, and I've had some time to snoop around my hard drive.
First of all, this is interesting (to me, anyway):
I ran the Startup Control Panel applet y'all recommended. It showed that there
was a Dell utility running at startup. Trouble is, not only does that .exe file not exist on my HD, the entire subdirectory doesn't seem to exist!
As you can see, I've had all related Dell products turned off in msconfig, and they still show up when I boot:
I
did discover in
c:\dell, several things:
- Something called "DBRM.ini"
- Something called "DCSUStart.bat"
- A subdirectory called "DBRM", containing only one subdirectory ("Reminders"), which in turn contained a whole bunch of what looks like language- or region-specific subdirectories. It also contained...
- Two files, one called "DBRMTrayIcon.exe"and one called "TrayApp.exe"
I've attached the .ini and the .bat files. (I've renamed the .ini to .txt for attachment purposes)
I'm wondering if it's the .bat file that's causing the "Dell Backup and Recovery Manager" (DBRM) and "Dell Smart Settings" to run on startup... And if I just commented out those lines, would that help?
[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]