Add / Remove Start up Pgms

[Nomad]

Okay, my dear sweet 'ol mother, using WinXP (while I'm still "back there",
using WinME), would like to know how to stop some programs from loading at
start-up. With WinME, I can RUN, and then type MSCONFIG, however I'm told
that with XP, you can't. Is there a relatively easy way to stop pgms from
auto starting in WinXP?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

You can use msconfig, however, have a look in the appropriate progam's
settings/options initially to see if the program can be stopped from loading
at startup that way.

 

[Rock]

Okay, my dear sweet 'ol mother, using WinXP (while I'm still "back there",
using WinME), would like to know how to stop some programs from loading at
start-up. With WinME, I can RUN, and then type MSCONFIG, however I'm told
that with XP, you can't. Is there a relatively easy way to stop pgms from
auto starting in WinXP?

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
or 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,
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ before making any
changes to the registry.