I decided to use a firewall because I am on the Net a great deal of the time. Next week, I will tell you more about what I found on unwanted attempts by outsiders to visit my computer. No need for you to lose any sleep over it but forewarned is forearmed as the old saw goes. Too many files running I recently had to do a quick restore and the tech support person said that I needed to learn how to delete some of the program files that start when I start my computer. I cannot afford another call to tech support.
Many programs place shortcuts there to start programs automatically.
It will list some of the programs, and these are easy to remove. Many programs appear in the Tray on the right side of the Taskbar. If you hover with your cursor over the icons, you will see the name of the programs. If you right or left-click on them, many will show a setup screen from which they can be deleted permanently. There is no simple way in Windows 95.