How to turn off a starup item?

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How to turn off a starup item? - 05/17/01 12:01 PM

Using 9x for so long, I'm not sure how to remove this program.

When I start my computer, some app that runs but isn't in the StartUp folder immediately crashes and is closed.. Figures. :p

I'm used to running MSCONFIG to turn these things off... Not so in W2K. Help the newbie... How do I remove this?

Re: How to turn off a starup item? - 05/17/01 03:12 PM

Have a look in the Registry under...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Everything that loads at startup is listed there. Just delete the entry that relates to the offending application.

Re: How to turn off a starup item? - 05/17/01 09:54 PM

yeah check either HKLM or HKCU (Hkey current user) and under the software/MS/windows/run and runonce are the keys you are looking for.

Re: How to turn off a starup item? - 05/25/01 01:08 AM

If you don't want to get your hands dirty, check out Reg Cleaner.

Very handy at backing up and removing startup items.

Check out [url=www.utilitygeek.com.]www.utilitygeek.com.[/url] I believe that they have it there.

If not, search around.

Cheers

Re: How to turn off a starup item? - 05/26/01 09:38 PM

Startup Control Panel (http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) is a nice interface to the registry Run keys.