ghost apps keep reappearing in my startup list

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brocpuffs

Hi,

I have a few old programs that literally are haunting my system.
Not virii, I suspect poorly written software.

These programs are Copernic Summarizer, ArtyClock, Morgan Multimedia
which was part of "ACE Mega Codecs Pack", Spyware Blaster, and an
audio processing program called Sonic - something.

The original applications have been totally eliminated long ago.
These ghost keys are listed still in the "run" keys. For the most part
these are tray items which originally should start when the system
does.

When I try to delete them, a message appears from my startup monitor
telling me that the app that is no longer there, is trying to put
itself back in my startup menu/Run key. If I deny it, it asks again.
And again- The only way I can get out of the prompt is to accept it.

I get the exact same result attempting to delete these ghost keys in
Regedit, in a registry cleaning app I have, or anything else. I tried
the admin account route which seemed to work, but they all appeared
again after a normal restart..

The item in the Copernic Summarizer Run (at startup) key has
"/thisismandatory" as a parameter to the application.

Well, I don't understand how an application that is not there, can be
forcing me to reinstall something that is not there either, in
run-at-startup.

Something has to be there somewhere! Where the heck is it?!

These are not hurting my machine, but I would like to know what's
going on.

Thanks!

James
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Use msconfig. Remove the checkmark from the appropriate entry.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Use msconfig. Remove the checkmark from the appropriate entry.
Click to expand...

I tried that, and something else is loading the unwanted app info back
into the startup file.

I assume this one I've tried to edit is startup32.ini. In DOS mode,
there's nothing in it.

What comes before or during loading stuff into system32.ini? Or-?

I'll try the option startup with y/n for each driver-

James
(e-mail address removed)
 
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