Start Up Programs

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Smirnoff

The other day I came across a window that allows more control over start
up items.
Not msconfig.
For the life of me I cannot remember how I got to it.
The dialogue box says something like this:

Program 1 - Permitted
Program 2 - Not yet categorised.

It also allows you to enable/disable etc.

Any ideas?
 
| The other day I came across a window that allows more control over start
| up items.
| Not msconfig.
| For the life of me I cannot remember how I got to it.
| The dialogue box says something like this:
|
| Program 1 - Permitted
| Program 2 - Not yet categorised.
|
| It also allows you to enable/disable etc.
|
| Any ideas?
|
|

Sounds Like Windows Defender/Tools/Software Explorer/StartupPrograms
~Gary
|
 
Smirnoff said:
The other day I came across a window that allows more control over
start up items.
Not msconfig.
For the life of me I cannot remember how I got to it.
The dialogue box says something like this:

Program 1 - Permitted
Program 2 - Not yet categorised.

It also allows you to enable/disable etc.

Any ideas?
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Found it. It's part of Windows Defender.
If you have WD, there is an icon in Control Panel - "Software Explorers"
Sorry, part of description of window should have been "Not yet
classified"
 
Vodka Person

Windows Defender (Microsoft AntiSpyware) is rubbish!!

Was beta testing it for a few weeks for Microsoft beta program & wouldn't
have it installed on my machine. Big shame it come with Vista
 
Interesting. What main problem did you find with it?
Have only seen positive feedback on it in Newsgroups.
I use it along with Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D etc.
No problems so far.
 
Smirnoff,

I use Spybot too & find it a great program. I also beta test for them too.
There are a few bugs like cannot close the application sometimes & it
doesn't discover things in some locations, but none of them do.

When I was beta testing WD it had memory leaks which hogged memory. The
update always used to free. Missed many things that Spybot took care of.
Didn't want in sitting in the system tray either or on Windows Startup.

When I was beta testing Vista (beta 1, beta 2, rc1, rc 2) I never used the
WD. Had enough bugs to report in Vista to bother about other things. Never
in a million years would I install WD again as it toally screwed up two XP
machines which I had to sort out due to them installing this dreadful
program.

The Ad-Aware application used to be declared as a rogue product with the
number of false positives it produced. Wouldn't use it - ever because Spybot
is better if you know what you are doing in advanced mode.

Whatever I say its up-to-you what you do. If you like it & it suits you then
that is all that matters.
 
Windows Defender (Microsoft AntiSpyware) is rubbish!!

Was beta testing it for a few weeks for Microsoft beta program & wouldn't
have it installed on my machine. Big shame it come with Vista
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You are entitled to like or dislike any product you want to, but making a
judgment based on a beta version of it is simply foolish.
 
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