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I have just installed a trial version of Office 2010 on my Windows7 netbook. During the installation, WinPatrol PLUS informed me that SMASH was set to start at Windows startup and asked whether I wanted to allow that. I said yes, but after the installation had finished, I checked with WinPatrol's information, and it informed me that it wasn't absolutely necessary for SMASH to start at startup and run all the time. I try to limit the number of programs that start at startup to the few I need to have running right away. I suspect that SMASH is not such a pprogram, but I don't know exactly what it does so I can't be sure. I'd be most grateful if someone would tell me what function SMASH performs and whether I can remove it from the startup menu. (I did try to find an explanation in the TextMaker manual and in the forum's search, but I did not succeed.)

Thanks in advance for your help.

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SoftMaker Office 2012 Standard; Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

I removed SMASH from my startup with no problems.

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Designer and manufacturer of handheld electronic test equipment. This is my little company: http://www.peakelec.co.uk

Thanks very much, Little Otter, for your response. I'll probably do the same, though I'd still like to know what SMASH does.

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SoftMaker Office 2012 Standard; Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

SMASH is a shortcut program to start the SoftMaker applications from the tray. It is absolutely not necessary, I've never used it.