roseohseven said: 1. Open your Touchsmart software. In the opening screen with all the app tabs, there should be a button near the bottom marked "Personalize." Click on this button. 2. A new screen should pop up that allows you (among other things) to pick and choose which app tabs are displayed. On the right side of the screen, there should be a button marked "Settings." Click on this button. 3. A window will pop up with two already checked boxes marked "Auto-Start" and "Quick-Launch." Uncheck both of these boxes, and Touchsmart will only start when you manually open the application. Be advised: the Touchsmart software suite will probably start up significantly slower as a result of this action. Currently, your Touchsmart apps are all running in the background upon startup. If you uncheck this option, every time you start up the software, it will have to start up every single app for the first time. Hope that helps!

Thanks  for the quick reply. I found this menu option last night, and both boxes ARE unchecked, but it's still starting up on its own. I'll try checking, restarting, unchecking, and then restarting again tonight to see if that makes a difference.

Yes, I've been using the "house" button rather than the power button on the top right. This probably explains it. Thank you. I'll try using the other button when I get home tonight.

Thanks all for your prompt replies.

Rich