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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

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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

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I thought if I might, maybe jump in on this thread for a similar problem. AOL has convinced themselves that they own this box of parts . Anytime it feels like it , it starts, it's window covering up whatever I'm doing and dials up. I've turned off all of it's Autostart options which is supposed to take care of this. Somtimes 10-12 times an hour. Also, Intellectual interactive player, which by the way downloaded itself somewhere along the line and Realplayer . Anyone know any settings that really do work? Thanks Mucho, Joe Andre


On Friday, April 25, 2003 at 8:01 am, Ricer46 wrote:

>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.
>
>

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You might try settings>control panel>add or remove programs>set program access and defaults. If you have AOL set as your default browser, anytime you click on a link, it will start and try to connect...annoying, isn't it?


On Friday, April 25, 2003 at 10:52 pm, Joe Andre wrote:
> I thought if I might, maybe jump in on this thread for a similar problem. AOL
>has convinced themselves that they own this box of parts . Anytime it feels like
>it , it starts, it's window covering up whatever I'm doing and dials up. I've turned
>off all of it's Autostart options which is supposed to take care of this. Somtimes
>10-12 times an hour. Also, Intellectual interactive player, which by the way downloaded
>itself somewhere along the line and Realplayer . Anyone know any settings that really
>do work? Thanks Mucho, Joe Andre
>

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To get realsched.exe off your startups for good... Click Start, and then click Run. (The Run dialog box appears.) Type regedit then click OK. (The Registry Editor opens.) Navigate to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run In the right pane, delete any values that refer to realsched.exe, and any other app that you don't want running at startup. This reg folder is for startup items only, you will still be able to load and run these programs effectively. Hope this helps.


On Friday, April 25, 2003 at 8:01 am, Ricer46 wrote:

>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.
>
>
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Shane's advice will get rid of the key, but realsched is one of those annoying programs that just keep coming back. It'll just remake the key. Help is at hand! Mike Lin has written two tiny but excellent programs for just this kind of thing: StartupCPL and Startup Monitor. The first allows you to look at a list of everything that starts when windows starts and delete what you want. The second informs you when a program is trying to register something to start on windows startup, and will give you an 'allow or deny' option. Taken together, they will cure practically all your startup problems. His homepage, with free small downloads, is www.mlin.net Hope this helps, too...


On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 3:18 pm, Shane wrote:
>To get realsched.exe off your startups for good...
>Click Start, and then click Run. (The Run dialog box appears.)
>Type regedit
>
>then click OK. (The Registry Editor opens.)
>
>
>Navigate to the key:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

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A simple solution to getting rid of Realsched.exe for good (or at least until you update / reinstall it). Follow Shane's sound advice on removing the registry keys. Before using RealOne Player again, though, locate Realsched.exe and rename it to Realsched.old


On this machine it was found in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\ Once this has been done it will no longer run and will no longer be reinstated to the registry keys you removed. RealOne Player will operate as normal without RealSched and also without those annoying popup messages and without stealing resources when you're not running it.


On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 7:34 am, Jon wrote:
>
>Shane's advice will get rid of the key, but realsched is one of those annoying programs
>that just keep coming back. It'll just remake the key. Help is at hand! Mike Lin
>has written two tiny but excellent programs for just this kind of thing: StartupCPL
>and Startup Monitor. The first allows you to look at a list of everything that starts
>when windows starts and delete what you want. The second informs you when a program
>is trying to register something to start on windows startup, and will give you an
>'allow or deny' option. Taken together, they will cure practically all your startup
>problems.
>
>His homepage, with free small downloads, is www.mlin.net
>
>Hope this helps, too...
>

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An alternative solution is to delete Real One Player. Go to control panel, add/delete programs, highlight Real Player, delete. I'm hoping i dont need real one player for a while. If i do i will consider going back and following the advice above, but for now my computer is up and running again, whereas, before realsched.exe was locking up my computer by using 100% of the CPU all the time - you could see it in task manager. Symtoms were extremely slow running and inability to open some files or application. I got strange error messages like i was out of memory or quotas. My solution was crude but simple and effective. realsched.exe was a major annoyance!


On Thursday, April 8, 2004 at 1:04 pm, Mike H wrote:
>A simple solution to getting rid of Realsched.exe for good (or at least until you
>update / reinstall it).
>
>Follow Shane's sound advice on removing the registry keys. Before using RealOne Player
>again, though, locate Realsched.exe and rename it to Realsched.old
>
>

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