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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Saturday, November 2, 2002 at 12:36 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dad
(83 messages posted)
Thanks, everybody! I very much appreciate your responses to my post. Permit a few
"post-scripts": My version of Windows 98(not SE) does NOT show any other folders
in the Start Menu Folder within the Windows Folder when viewed in Windows Explorer.
Many references seem to suggest that it should! So I spent much too much time searching
for it. Why not just refer to it as the folder titled "startup" in the list of Programs
that you see when you point to "Programs" from the menu that pops up after clicking
on the "Start" button? Probably because if someone has a long long list of programs
it would be a royal pain to find the folder since this list is not alphabetical.
Why would this "startup folder" not appear in Windows Explorer as a folder within
the Programs folder? I don't know? The folders within Programs are alphabetically
listed so I should see it, right? Well, to conclude, I did find the elusive StartUp
folder within my very lengthy list of Programs, right after GlobalSCAPE and right
before KodakpictureCD. Two programs that were annoying me by constantly starting
up at boot were there and I right clicked on each to delete. I got some sort of message
saying that I could not delete either of them. The programs were gator and gain which
is "spyware"that you get with gator nowadays, like it or not. A third program, AIM+,
was not there. It is loading from somewhere else and continues to do so and simply
adds a new check box in the list of Selective Startup Items in MSCONFIG every time
that I "uncheck"it. But this behavior has ceased for the other two once I restarted
Windows. And both were gone from the StartUp folder too despite that message! Again,
thanks, and a special thanks to Paul D for taking the time to answer all 3 of my
questions. Have a great weekend.
On Friday, November 1, 2002 at 6:18 pm, dad wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?:
>I have several programs that re-appear in my system tray after every restart of
Windows
>98 (notSE). I have used the MSCONFIG tool and unchecked these items in the Selective
>Startup list of startup items but each program re-appears anyway and adds itself
>to the list again, time after time. Curiously, my Windows Explorer does not display
>a Startup Folder inside my Start Menu Folder. The only things in the Start Menu
Folder
>are shortcuts to 10 programs. So, I have these questions: 1: where is the Startup
>Folder if it is not inside the Start Menu Folder; 2: Do these shorcuts do any resource
>consumption if they are in my Start menu Folder (shorcuts are only shorcuts, right?
>Their targeted programs only run when the shortcut is clicked upon, otherwise it-the
>shorcut-justs sits there, right?; 3: Anybody have any 1st hand experience with programs
>that "police" the windows registry to prevent stuff from loading at reboot? Thanks
>for your thoughts on all this!
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