I have a question about How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?:

This seems to be the most appropiate place to post my question. My problem isn't exactly a program running itself during startup, it's actually the installation wizards for 2 programs that interrupt my startup process. Regardless of whether or not I've installed these 2 programs (whether they exist in my system already or not) their wizards just keep on asking me to install their programs every single time I log on. The worst thing is that the programs wanting to be installed are Ad-aware & Pop-Up Stoppers. Many people have recommended I actually SCAN through the Ad-aware program and delete any files that may be causing the problems, but nothing at all seems to be working. Any advice? :(

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Remove both programs through Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. Then go to Windows Explorer and remove the program folders if they still exist. Then run a Registry Cleaner such as Winner Tweak Registry Cleaner. Then reinstall AdAware and see if a boot works without your current problem. Then install the other program (which I think is the problem as AdAware is pretty benign) and see how it goes. Work from there.


On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 4:35 am, Leisa wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?:

This seems to be
>the most appropiate place to post my question. My problem isn't exactly a program
>running itself during startup, it's actually the installation wizards for 2 programs
>that interrupt my startup process. Regardless of whether or not I've installed these
>2 programs (whether they exist in my system already or not) their wizards just keep
>on asking me to install their programs every single time I log on. The worst thing
>is that the programs wanting to be installed are Ad-aware & Pop-Up Stoppers. Many
>people have recommended I actually SCAN through the Ad-aware program and delete any
>files that may be causing the problems, but nothing at all seems to be working.
>Any advice? :(
>
>

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Sorry, I should have said I had done this already. I've gone into add/remove and deleted these both. I've intalled them again/removed them again a few times after that first time. I've gone back through and deleted all files relating to the programs, rebooted and still their wizards ask me to install. I've been warned that I should be careful with my registry, however if it's just a registry clean (something I can do without volunteerily deleting items) then would you mind if I got a link from you to that cleaner? I've been given Ad-aware Personal 6 (on disk) by a friend, so after I do that I could reinstall the disk copy of Ad-aware to run another scan. I've run off about 8 scans since this whole thing started, but I'm really willing to try anything.


On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 5:23 am, MaddMaxx wrote:
>Remove both programs through Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. Then go to Windows
>Explorer and remove the program folders if they still exist. Then run a Registry
>Cleaner such as Winner Tweak Registry Cleaner. Then reinstall AdAware and see
>if a boot works without your current problem. Then install the other program (which
>I think is the problem as AdAware is pretty benign) and see how it goes. Work from
>there.
>
>

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Leisa 
Are you logon as a Admin. or  a user ?







On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 4:35 am, Leisa wrote:

>I have a question about How 

>do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?:
This seems to 
be 

>the most appropiate place to post my question.  My problem isn't exactly a program 

>running itself during startup, it's actually the installation wizards for 2 programs 

>that interrupt my startup process.  Regardless of whether or not I've installed 
these 

>2 programs (whether they exist in my system already or not) their wizards just keep 

>on asking me to install their programs every single time I log on.  The worst thing 

>is that the programs wanting to be installed are Ad-aware & Pop-Up Stoppers.  Many 

>people have recommended I actually SCAN through the Ad-aware program and delete 
any 

>files that may be causing the problems, but nothing at all seems to be working. 
 

>Any advice? :(

>

>
 

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www.winnertweak.com


On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 5:40 am, Leisa wrote:
>Sorry, I should have said I had done this already. I've gone into add/remove and
>deleted these both. I've intalled them again/removed them again a few times after
>that first time. I've gone back through and deleted all files relating to the programs,
>rebooted and still their wizards ask me to install. I've been warned that I should
>be careful with my registry, however if it's just a registry clean (something I can
>do without volunteerily deleting items) then would you mind if I got a link from
>you to that cleaner? I've been given Ad-aware Personal 6 (on disk) by a friend,
>so after I do that I could reinstall the disk copy of Ad-aware to run another scan.
> I've run off about 8 scans since this whole thing started, but I'm really willing
>to try anything.
>
>
>

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On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 8:40 am, DEX wrote:
>Leisa
>Are you logon as a Admin. or a user ?
>
>
>

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Download msconfig.exe (for Windows XP, Microsoft omitted to put it in Win2k). When 
you run it, it will display a list of the programs that run at startup. Disable any 
that you don't want. 

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This is the message I get when I run msconfig.exe "Cannot find the file 'msconfig.exe' (or one of it's components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available". Am I doing something wrong?


On Thursday, May 13, 2004 at 6:36 am, adrian wrote:
>Download msconfig.exe (for Windows XP, Microsoft omitted to put it in Win2k). When
>you run it, it will display a list of the programs that run at startup. Disable any
>that you don't want.

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Step 1: download msconfig.exe for Windows XP (or a zip file containing it). 
Step 2: place msconfig.exe in the folder X:\WINNT\system32\ (where X: is the system 
drive  where you have Win2k installed)
Step 3: click Start -> Run -> msconfig
Step 4: click startup tab, uncheck the boxes next to the  programs you don't want 
(be careful not to stop something required by the system), click ok
Step 5: reboot. After the system comes back, a  message will appear "informing" you 
of what you just did. Check the box not to have this message in the future, click 
ok. 

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Hi Adrian. Thank you for your reply. I only have one problem: I still only have Windows 2000, therefore am unable to run msconfig. I feel like I'm getting somewhere though, what should I do in this instance?


On Monday, May 17, 2004 at 5:50 am, adrian wrote:
>Step 1: download msconfig.exe for Windows XP (or a zip file containing it).
>Step 2: place msconfig.exe in the folder X:\WINNT\system32\ (where X: is the system
>drive where you have Win2k installed)
>Step 3: click Start -> Run -> msconfig
>Step 4: click startup tab, uncheck the boxes next to the programs you don't want
>(be careful not to stop something required by the system), click ok
>Step 5: reboot. After the system comes back, a message will appear "informing" you
>of what you just did. Check the box not to have this message in the future, click
>ok.

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Use this link 
http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
and follow the instructions

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already ahead of you! Given your advice, I went on to search the web for ways of running msconfig on 2000. I came upon this site http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html after many different attempts to download msconfig programmes for 2000. This was the only one that worked. I downloaded it, deselected the 2 "annoying" programmes ... and ... voilah! They've gone! Thank you to EVERYONE who has helped me try and sort this out ... the 'annoyance' has now gone and I am happy once again. Thanks again, you've been wonderful. :D


On Tuesday, May 18, 2004 at 5:36 am, adrian wrote:
>Use this link
>http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
>and follow the instructions

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