Re: Startup Annoyances Won't Go Away
- From: Rock <rock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:39:16 -0800
MAL wrote:
I try often to reset Msconfig Startup to do away with things I don't want running in the background but they always come back. Even if I restart the computer immediately after changing startup, they are back running as soon as I reboot. Is there no way to completely control Msconfig Startup so that nothing or no one but me can change it?
First step should be to check in the options for the program you don't want to start and see if there is a setting to tell it not to run at startup. The next step is to remove any entries you don't want from the two startup folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig: Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok
Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT before making any changes to the registry.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
-- Rock MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
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