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There's actually a few places that XP uses to fire up apps when you login. By far the most common are...
1. The startup folders (C:\Documents and Settings\"username"\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup)
2. The registry. The two most common places in the registry are the run keys.
It's probably easiest if you use the System Config Utility. Go to Start, Run and type in msconfig. Go to the startup tab (last one) and in the list you should see the apps you are looking for, they will probably not be in plain english such as "Yahoo Messenger" but you should be able to tell from the name, if not look in the "command" column and it should be more obvious. Deselect the apps you don't want to start and hit OK. Choose whether to reboot or not.
When you do reboot, you will be prompted with a dialog box informing you that you are running in Diagnostic or selective startup mode. Just tick the box to not show the dialog box when Windows starts and that should be it, now check that the apps have not launched to be sure.
Hope this helps, let us know if you have any grief or further problems
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