Startup in the registry. Where is it ?

[keepout]

Someone posted a fix for one program that can't make it past Vista's UAC in the startup. By putting it in a logon task instead of startup. But 1ststep is to remove it from the startups.

I can no longer find my startup folder, and in the registry seems to haveburied the info just as well.
I searched for run, runonce, and startup.
startup and run hit several hundred links. runonce only showed one, and it appeared just below run. But the program I'm looking for doesn't appear there. Where in the registry is it ?

 

[Dustin Harper]

Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Good luck!

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Dustin Harper
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Someone posted a fix for one program that can't make it past Vista's UAC in
the startup. By putting it in a logon task instead of startup. But 1st step
is to remove it from the startups.

I can no longer find my startup folder, and in the registry seems to have
buried the info just as well.
I searched for run, runonce, and startup.
startup and run hit several hundred links. runonce only showed one, and it
appeared just below run. But the program I'm looking for doesn't appear
there. Where in the registry is it ?

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

The easist way to determine what is launched at startup & where it comes
from is to run 'msconfig.exe' and look at the 'Startup' tab.

Having said that, here are the specifics:

To open the Startup folders, in the 'Start Search' box on the Start Menu,
type:

shell:common startup<Enter>
shell:startup<Enter>

The paths are:
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
"C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup"

Registry keys are:
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"
"HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
"HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Someone posted a fix for one program that can't make it past Vista's UAC in
the startup. By putting it in a logon task instead of startup. But 1st step
is to remove it from the startups.

I can no longer find my startup folder, and in the registry seems to have
buried the info just as well.
I searched for run, runonce, and startup.
startup and run hit several hundred links. runonce only showed one, and it
appeared just below run. But the program I'm looking for doesn't appear
there. Where in the registry is it ?

 

[keepout]

The easist way to determine what is launched at startup & where it comes
from is to run 'msconfig.exe' and look at the 'Startup' tab.

Having said that, here are the specifics:

To open the Startup folders, in the 'Start Search' box on the Start Menu,
type:

shell:common startup<Enter>
shell:startup<Enter>

The paths are:
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
"C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup"

Registry keys are:
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"
"HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
"HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"

I used msconfig. It only shows the drive path, not the registry path.
Anyway's finally got rid of it when I found my startup folder on the HD. This is going to take awhile to get caught up, seems like they've moved nearly everything with Vista. Now All I have to remember if it fails, it isn't a startup anymore but a scheduled task.

And I'm still at war with UAC.

All this was done to USE UAC. And set the Internet explorer protected mode on. And so far, haven't been able to get the protected mode on in IE7.

But at least I got my old spam sorter past UAC.