re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' Friday, April 25, 2003 at 8:01 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (23822 messages posted) I don't recall how I did it, but I know I didn't edit the registry, and I was able to get rid of the QT junk, not sure if I have Real Player loaded or not (I'm not at my home system right now). So examine the various configuration options and look at the files involved. I really despise these companies that are so self obsessed that they want to occupy memory on your computer 100% of the time. On Friday, April 25, 2003 at 7:33 am, Matt wrote: >I have a question about How >do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?: > >Is there a way to lock down the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ >CurrentVersion\Run key? > >I have two applications (QuickTime and Real Player) which insist on leaving their >junk in the autorun every time I view one of their media files. This is quite annoying >and I would like to ether lock down that key or in the least find a way to disalow >QTTask.exe and RealSched.exe from getting in. > >Any hints/advice/etc? > >Thanks, > >-- >Matt Written in response to: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Matt: Friday, April 25, 2003 at 7:33 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (joe andre: Friday, April 25, 2003 at 10:52 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?': realsched.exe (Shane: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 3:18 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Matt: Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 7:33 am) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Ricer46: Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 8:01 am) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (joe andre: Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 10:52 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Stu: Wed, May 28, 2003, 8:06 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?': realsched.exe (Shane: Tue, Jan 27, 2004, 3:18 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?': realsched.exe (Jon: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 7:34 am) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?': realsched.exe (Mike H: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 1:04 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?': realsched.exe (doug: Mon, May 3, 2004, 6:19 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum