Startup Programs

[Guest]

Yes, I've checked my startup folder and nothing is in there. Yet some pesky
programs such as quicktime, MSN, and Winamp to name a few keep opening
themselves upon startup. Making my computer startup a bit slower. Is there
any way that I could stop these programs or do I need to go and manually try
to stop them?

Truly,

Joey

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Everest Home Edition is an interesting (freeware) source of information:
http://www.lavalys.hu/index.php

If you download see if the answer to your question is revealed by
selecting Software, Auto.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Alan Edwards]

The startup folder is only one place that Windows uses.
Try Start-Run-MSCONFIG-Startup tab.
Some applications have the option to not start, so check that first.

....Alan

 

[Stan Brown]

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:02:02 -0700 from JoeyHanks13 <JoeyHanks13
@discussions.microsoft.com>:

Yes, I've checked my startup folder and nothing is in there. Yet some pesky
programs such as quicktime, MSN, and Winamp to name a few keep opening
themselves upon startup. Making my computer startup a bit slower. Is there
any way that I could stop these programs or do I need to go and manually try
to stop them?

First, open each program and carefully check all its options or
preference settings. If you can find a checkbox for "start when
Windows starts" or similar, uncheck it. Remember to save the options,
then exit the program. This is the best method, but unfortunately not
all applications are nice and responsible to provide it.

Once you've turned off what you can, reboot and (preferably) create a
restore point with System Restore.

Then run the free Autoruns program:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml
This will find every automatically run program. You can uncheck the
ones you want to disable, then if there's a problem when you reboot
you can re-enable them (or restore from your restore point, if you
made one).