Startup Annoyances Won't Go Away

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I try often to reset Msconfig Startup to do away with things I don't want
running in the background but they always come back. Even if I restart the
computer immediately after changing startup, they are back running as soon as
I reboot. Is there no way to completely control Msconfig Startup so that
nothing or no one but me can change it?
 
=?Utf-8?B?TUFM?= said:
I try often to reset Msconfig Startup to do away with things I don't want
running in the background but they always come back. Even if I restart the
computer immediately after changing startup, they are back running as soon as
I reboot. Is there no way to completely control Msconfig Startup so that
nothing or no one but me can change it?
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Msconfig is a tweaking tool. It's NOT a tool to permenantly disable
startups.

Run the app in question. Look for a tweak in "config", "setup", or
whatever, to disable the app you dont want to startup when win loads. If
no joy, remove the app.
 
Plato said:
Msconfig is a tweaking tool. It's NOT a tool to permenantly disable
startups.

Run the app in question. Look for a tweak in "config", "setup", or
whatever, to disable the app you dont want to startup when win loads. If
no joy, remove the app.

http://www.bootdisk.com/
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Hi
Delete the shortcuts you have got in your start up folder
Start>All Programs>Startup

Chas
 
MAL said:
I try often to reset Msconfig Startup to do away with things I don't want
running in the background but they always come back. Even if I restart the
computer immediately after changing startup, they are back running as soon as
I reboot. Is there no way to completely control Msconfig Startup so that
nothing or no one but me can change it?
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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.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
 
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