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Programs automatically starting up

When I start up my Windows 2000 Server normally it starts to hang because 4 processes that use Perl.exe start up that each take exactly 25%. Takes me about 10 minutes load up ANY program. I then restart the computer in safe mode and those processes don't start up and the server runs in normal speed but problem is I need my IIS and stuff to run. How can I find out what is starting up these perl processes and hanging my server?

I checked in Start -> Programs -> Start Up and didn't find anything there and didn't find what I was looking for in the registry. HELP!!!!
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Yeah that registry area was... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run .
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download Process Explorer from
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
Hijackthis is a tool primerily for stopping spyware from rumming on bootup, but it can be used to stop other applications.

It can be found easily with a google search, just scan the system and remove anything you don't want. Be very carefull what you remove though as many of the applications in the list will be required by the operating system
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