Welcome, Jim. There's a few options left to check before resorting to
direct editing of a registry editing.
When you can't locate a shortcut in any of the startup folders, start
checking the program's menus. There is often a startup setting tucked
away under "Options" or "Preferences" that will help you out.
If the program has a tray icon, check the right and left click menus
that icon offers. Have found the startup options for a few programs in
these menus.
If you're familiar with MSCONFIG from Win98, a WinXP version of that
tool is available in XP. I try to leave unticking the program in
MSCONFIG as a last resort since some persistent programs will perform a
startup check and add themselves right back into that startup list.
Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]
Thanks...in this case it was the "remove programs ..... from your startup
group" that was causing the problem.It didn't appear in the startup folder
hierarchy, making me fear that I'd have to start messing about with the
registry.
Jim
Sharon F said:
There's no "blanket" answer for this. Address each program on a
one-by-one basis. If possible, remove programs that balk with Fast User
Switching from your startup group. Run them only when needed and close
them before switching users.
Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]
Thanks for the advice, but none of those refered to umsd.exe. I've cured
the problem by uninstalling the software - it wasn't necessary for
using
the
memory pen, it merely allowed you to split the storage into public and
private.
However, does this mean that any software not designed for xp, which only
allows a single instance to be open at once, and which forces itself into
startup will give the same problem?
Jim
Three things you might try.
1. look in the program you don't want to automaticly start
up and see if it has an option for disabeling the run on
startup.
2. if the program is in your startup folder delete it from
there.
3. open windows explorer -> go to c:\I386 -> services ->
and see if your program is set for automatic there. If it
is you can set it to manual or disable it.
Jonathan
-----Original Message-----
In xp home, when I use "switch user" I get an error
message "this program is
already running" . Using msconfig, I can see that a
routine called umsd,
which I installed so that I could use a USB memory pen,
is in startup for
each user.
In windows98, either unticking in msconfig, or, if this
failed, deleting
from windows/startup, would stop a routine loading
automatically at startup.
From what I've read using google, it looks as though the
only way to cure it
in xp is to edit the registry - is this correct?
If I simply uninstall the umsd software, is there any
utility similar to
norton systemcheck, which checks for registry entries
pointing to absent
files?
Jim
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