Remove Programs from Start Up

[Guest]

Hi,

I need some assistance. How do I prevent programs from starting when I turn
my pc on? I'm not looking to change the "start" menu but rather, I have a
bunch of programs that boot up immediately when I turn windows XP on. I'd
like to remove them from auto running at boot.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ananttickoo]

open start ->run

in that type
msconfig


in msconfig utility
go under tab start up of utility n rermove wot ever u want.

 

[Rock]

Hi,

I need some assistance. How do I prevent programs from starting when I
turn
my pc on? I'm not looking to change the "start" menu but rather, I have a
bunch of programs that boot up immediately when I turn windows XP on. I'd
like to remove them from auto running at boot.

Thanks in advance.

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.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

 

[John Smithe]

Hi,

I need some assistance. How do I prevent programs from starting when I
turn my pc on? I'm not looking to change the "start" menu but rather,
I have a bunch of programs that boot up immediately when I turn
windows XP on. I'd like to remove them from auto running at boot.

Thanks in advance.

Take a look at 'autoruns' from

http://www.sysinternals.com/
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html


There are many good utilities there. (These guys were recently hired by
Microsoft.)


Also take a look at:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

I will second Rock's post and recommend turning off startup programs by
setting the appropriate program startup options. Then instead of using
msconfig use 'autoruns'. 'Autoruns' provides one stop shopping by
examining all the possible locations for system startup entries and
listing them for you to review and disable/delete as you like. Select the
'logon' tab to see the best candidates for disabling. Autoruns also
provides info about the startup programs so you can make a more informed
decision about what to disable or delete.

Good Luck