Start Up Programs

[Guest]

Can someone please refresh my memory on how to remove programs from the start
up menu? I'm specifically seeking how to remove programs on the right hand
side of the taskbar (can't remember what that is called), but not completely
from the computer.

Thanks
FW

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit Enter.
Look under the Start tab and remove the check next to
startup items you wish not to start, then click Apply and reboot.


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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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| Can someone please refresh my memory on how to remove programs from the start
| up menu? I'm specifically seeking how to remove programs on the right hand
| side of the taskbar (can't remember what that is called), but not completely
| from the computer.
|
| Thanks
| FW

 

[Rock]

Can someone please refresh my memory on how to remove programs from the start
up menu? I'm specifically seeking how to remove programs on the right hand
side of the taskbar (can't remember what that is called), but not completely
from the computer.

Thanks
FW

It's called the Notification Area. 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.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm