Re: Stopping software from starting when Windows starts?

From: Ted Jensen (tjensen_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:08:10 GMT

Thanks Mike! I'm familiar enough with Regedit to treat it with
respect! However, when I went looking where you directed
I could not find the program listed there among the others.
So, I started over. I made sure that it was checked in the
msconfigure startup list as usual, I rebooted and again checked
that it was still there. I then went to the Task Manager and found it
listed there under Processes. Then I looked in the registry once
more and, again, it is not listed there!

Any other suggestions would be welcome. BTW, it might help me if I
understood a bit more about the order in which things are loaded, sort
of a 'which came first the chicken or egg' kind of thing. I assume
the registry is loaded off the hard drive early on... and that
msconfig.exe is getting its info from the registry... but somehow it
is not clear in my mind as to exactly how things work when I make a
change to msconfig and then reboot.

Again.. any help you can give will be appreciated.

Ted Jensen

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:10:54 -0600, Mike Miller <mcubed5@ftml.net>
wrote:

>In article <dvtur0p3ea9c8n1r25ur23gqemvk41hn7g@4ax.com>,
>tjensen@ix.netcom.com says...
>> Background:
>> Windows XP + SP2
>> Program: BackUp4All.exe
>> Statement of Problem:
>> Have had program for several months and has
>> been working fine. Ran into minor problem.
>> Uninstalled... did a new install. During new
>> install inadverdently selecte option to load
>> when loading Windows. Once that happened, when
>> I loaded Windows and attempted to run program
>> received notice that it was already running.
>> Checked with msconfig.exe and found it was
>> listed in Startup list. Deselected it at that
>> point, rebooted and everything okay!....
>>
>> Except... I keep getting warning on booting
>> that I am in non-standard startup mode. While
>> I can check this so the warning doesn't appear,
>> what I would really like to do is remove it from
>> the Startup list completely. But I don't know
>> how to do that.
>>
>> In checking the Startup directory, (including those associated with
>> all user's and the 'common' one) I don't see many of the programs
>> found in the list displayed by msconfig.exe. That includes this one.
>> Since there is nothing there I can't very well eliminate it. It
>> always shows up in msconfig however.
>>
>> I suppose I could search through
>> the registry and eliminate all lines referencing
>> the program, then go back and do another install,
>> but would prefer an easier way if anyone can tell
>> me how. Any help out there for this?
>>
>> Ted-
>>
>MISTAKES here can SCREW your computer into the ground so be careful and
>make a backup first. If you don't know how regedit works don't do this.
>
>You can use regedit to see more programs that run at startup.
>Look at the key
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>
>You can just delete the entries that list programs you don't want to
>automatically start.

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