Do you have a desktop theme installed? I have seen some very beautiful designs. But all off those sounds and animated cursors are eating up processor time and memory. Wallpapers slow down your screen redraws and also use memory. Sound events may also crash your computer every once in a while. Screen savers are superfluous on modern monitors, they are just for fun. Get rid of it NOW!
To make this easier for you, I have made a clean desktop theme. Just download it, unzip it to Themes folder. Right click on the file and select 'Install theme'. This removes your wallpaper, sounds, cursors, screen saver. To get rid of logos you'll have to edit your 'msdos.sys' file, a hidden file in the root. Just change the 'Logo=1' setting to 'Logo=0', and save the file. You can also use George Lee’s Boot95 utility to do this.
These files are dinosaurs from the age of MS-DOS. Windows does not really need them anymore, but some software does. In particular DOS software, running outside Windows. So I suggest you just leave them there. You may however want to examine them, because they can startup software too. To see what they do, you'll have to startup in MS-DOS (press F8 at system startup, choose the appropriate menu item). Exiting to MS-DOS from the shutdown menu does not really get you to plain DOS!
Type 'mum /c /p' at the command line to see what software is running. If you see something you don't want there, look for the corresponding command in the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. You can shut off the command by putting a semicolon ";" at the beginning of the line. Be sure to make backups of all files before changing anything.
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