Progams in StartUp, What do they do?

[VietNam]

Dear All,
Does anyone know what do the programs in the StartUp Folder do?
I have just hard reseted my XDA-II and I found following links in this folder

1. AFlashMan.lnk
2. BPInsert.lnk
3. BTIcon.lnk
4. CFlashMan.lnk
5. CheckAutoRun.lnk
6. HandsFree.lnk
7. IA_Caller_ID.lnk
8. MMReg.
9. NFlashMan.lnk
10. poutlook.lnk
11. SMSReceiver.lnk
12. Socket SDIO WLAN.lnk
13. stk.lnk
14. TFlashMan.lnk
15. USSD.lnk

These links are relative to the executed programs in Windows folder with the same names, some of them I can guess for example

HandsFree-Support HandsFree Calling.
IA_Caller_ID-Identify the Caller in Contacts
SMSReceiver-Send and receive SMS
Socket SDIO WLAN-Support Card SD Wi-Fi
BTIcon - The Bluetooth Manager Icon at the bottom right.

But what do the others do?? (What do the ?FlashMan.exe do???)
I deleted All the links that I dont khow what they do and it seems to me that nothing happned. Did I do the right?

Please comment
Thanks!

[JamesManios]

I think! the ?flashman.exe are the individual programs used to backup things to the non-volitale ROM.

AFlashman.exe = Appointments
CFlashman.exe = Contacts
TFlashman.exe = Tasks
NFlashman.exe = coNnections

Why they made this 4 seperate process is beyond me, I removed the ones I don't use, (I only backup the contacts). BPInsert I've also removed, doesn't seem to hurt Bluetooth.

MMReg = is probably Mutlimedia Messaging registration
poutlook = I think your address book, (something to do with that)
stk = is the SIM card toolkit, (you need it to run the SIM tools like syncing
USSD = I don't know that one myself?

[eayuwna]

There's a lot of programs in the startup folder on your machine!
I only have:

aFlashman.lnk
cFlashman.lnk
clear_notify.exe
IIWPO_startup.exe
PhonExt.lnk
PocketNav.lnk
poutlook.lnk

Does anyone know if this means I won't have full functionality of my XDA?

(It's an XDA I - RS 4.21 ROM 4.01.16 (Tmobile))

I'm sure I remember having handsfree.lnk in there before I did the upgrade. What's happened to it? Should I be worried?

[Biso007]

Hi all,

I hope i'm wrong, but you shouldn't have messed up with those links especially the ?flashman.exe as i believe they are responsible for the ROM to RAM flashing upon soft reset.

note: the number and names of the .lnk files are different between the XDA I and XDA II due to the additional s/w on XDA II (BT and WiFi for example)

[Rayan]

As far as I know those FlashX files are for backing up contacts, tasks and appointments to non-volatile memory...

AFlashman.exe = Appointments
CFlashman.exe = Contacts
TFlashman.exe = Tasks
NFlashman.exe = coNnections

So if you don't use the Permanent Save feature (on Control Panel) you can safely delete them from the startup folder.

Best regards,
Rayan

[ezzkht]

IIWPO_startup.exe = Anti-theft program
xFlashMan.lnk = processes to synchronize u're contacts, calendar, tasks... in ROM (non-volatile backup)
poutlook.lnk = pocket outlook process (necessary for pocket word & excel)
SMSReceiver.lnk = process to monitor SMS reception & save incoming SMS in DB
stk.lnk = SIM Toolkit
USSD.lnk = the GSM service (monitors incoming calls, dialing numbers, etc...)

[muppet_65]

poutlook.lnk = pocket outlook process (necessary for pocket word & excel)


Actually this has to do with the permanent save - you can delete it and still synchronize with the PC & use tasks/contacts etc. At least I did ..

[ezzkht]

poutlook.lnk = permanent save?
i never knew about that! :?
are you sure its safe to terminate this process??? :roll:

[OdeeanRDeathshead]

poutlook starts up with 1 thread and is responsible for everything that occurs in tasks contacts and calendar. poutlook starts at least 1 new thread for each when they are started for the first time. I do not think it has anything to do with permanent save. If you kill it or send it a WM_CLOSE it ends along with the contacts, tasks and calendar with no apparent other side effects. I would like to know how it has anything to do with word and excel, they are pword.exe and pxl.exe for the process names. Ending the process for the flashman's has varying results. Sometimes the whole ppc freezez up. Sometimes the current window continues but once the app closes the os freezes.

Dose anyone know if there is somewhere in the registry where a list all non os exe file names or paths is?