Disabling start-up applications

[Guest]

Hello,
What is the easiest way to disable, NOT delete, start-up programs? Also, how
can I see their dependencies?

Spybot has a utility for that, under "Tools", "System Startup". Has anyone
here tried it?

Thank you so much.

 

[DL]

WinXp also has msconfig.exe
The apps that startup may have an option to stop them starting

 

[Guest]

Autoruns from http://www.sysinternals.com is basically msconfig on steroids,
gives a lot more info.

Dependency Walker form Microsoft can help with identifying the relationship
between executables and DLLs, etc.

 

[Guest]

Yes, the Spybot one works well (as does msconfig). However, Spybot gives
some good info on what the items are about. I would suggest using it.

 

[Guest]

Thank you all very much! I'll check SystemInternals also.