Guest Account - How To Prevent Program Startup

[Dick]

I have two accounts on my Windows XP Pro. My administrator account,
and a guest account for when people visit. I don't want all the
programs that start with my administrator account starting up with the
guest account. I deleted the Start/All Programs/Startup folder, but
they start up anyway. Do I have to modify the registry?

Dick

 

[james]

do you have a ".NET" account?
if not there is update to add this account.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Some programs start from the Start Menu (Documents and Settings\All
Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup OR Documents and
Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Or the load from 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

Are all typical location. Those that load from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE load for
all users. Those from HKEY_CURRENT_USER only load for that user, unless
other users have the same entry in their Registry.

To access another user's portion of the Registry, while you're logged on as
an Administrator level user, see www.dougknox.com, Win XP Tips, Advanced
Registry Editing.

 

[Dick]

I was OK until I got to the "Key Name". I entered a name and the box
just disappeared. I didn't see any hive to expand. Must have done
something wrong

Dick