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Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
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Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Friday, November 1, 2002 at 6:18 pm
Posted by dad
(83 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Friday, November 1, 2002 at 8:20 pm
Posted by jack harwood
(127 messages posted)
Go to Start>Programs>startup if they are listed there they will turn themselves back
on at the boot. If so delete and then go back to msconfig>start and uncheck again
then reboot when asked..jackha
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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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Friday, November 1, 2002 at 8:41 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33507 messages posted)
Right click the start button - choose open - double click the Programs folder - scroll
to and open "Startup" folder.
Any program that is in your startup, is constantly running in the background. They
do consume resources. In most programs, you can check in the options/preference of
the program itself to choose not to have it run when Windows loads.
Please reply on the forum. I will not respond to private messages
Carol
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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Friday, November 1, 2002 at 8:52 pm
Posted by Oh_dear
(1415 messages posted)
Try StartCop - see link below
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2173,00.asp
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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
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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