Controlling process that begin at computer start up

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Hi,

I need help in finding out how to control (and remove) some processes that
are automatically starting up when my computer boots up (quicktime, real
player, WLAN utility etc). This is slowing down my computer. I have Windows
XP Pro. running.
I checked in services, in the "startup" folder in documents and settings but
no luck. Perhaps there is something in the registry.

Please help.

Thanks,
Manish
 
Manish said:
Hi,

I need help in finding out how to control (and remove) some processes that
are automatically starting up when my computer boots up (quicktime, real
player, WLAN utility etc). This is slowing down my computer. I have Windows
XP Pro. running.
I checked in services, in the "startup" folder in documents and settings but
no luck. Perhaps there is something in the registry.

Please help.

Thanks,
Manish
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Open the offending program and go into its preferences and stop it from
loading there. Both Real Player and QuickTime have a place to untick to
stop them from loading at start up. If a program does not have this
option, click on Start/Run and type in MSCONFIG and hit Enter or click
on OK. Then click on the Startup tab and untick anything you don't want
loading at start up. When you reboot, you will get a window popup
telling you did what you did. Tick the box "don't show this again" and
you're done.

Alias
 
Manish said:
Hi,

I need help in finding out how to control (and remove) some processes that
are automatically starting up when my computer boots up (quicktime, real
player, WLAN utility etc). This is slowing down my computer. I have Windows
XP Pro. running.
I checked in services, in the "startup" folder in documents and settings but
no luck. Perhaps there is something in the registry.

Please help.

Thanks,
Manish
Click to expand...

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

Also
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
 
Rock said:
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

Also
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
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Thank you very much for the information. I was able to go in an stop the
services from being started up by using the MSConfig tool. Some of them did
not have the option to suppress them from starting up.

Thanks,
Manish
 
Alias said:
Open the offending program and go into its preferences and stop it from
loading there. Both Real Player and QuickTime have a place to untick to
stop them from loading at start up. If a program does not have this
option, click on Start/Run and type in MSCONFIG and hit Enter or click
on OK. Then click on the Startup tab and untick anything you don't want
loading at start up. When you reboot, you will get a window popup
telling you did what you did. Tick the box "don't show this again" and
you're done.

Alias
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Thank you very much for the information. I was able to go in an stop the
services from being started up. Some of them did not have the option to
suppress them from starting up.

Thanks,
Manish
 
Manish wrote:

Thank you very much for the information. I was able to go in an stop the
services from being started up by using the MSConfig tool. Some of them did
not have the option to suppress them from starting up.

Thanks,
Manish
Click to expand...

You're welcome.
 
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