Stop apps from running at start up

can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from automatically
running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be available, I
just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't want the
icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much

First check you application's menus to see if there's a setting there to
disable running the application on startup.

Then make sure a shortcut to the application isn't in the "Startup"
folder on your Windows "Start" menu. You can right click on the "Start"
button to explore the "Start" menu folders.

Click the "Run" option on the "Start" menu and type "MSCONFIG.EXE" in
the resulting popup. Click the "Startup" tab and uncheck the box
adjacent to the program file you want to stop from running. Take
anouther look at the first step above. Some applications will add
themselves back to the MSCONFIG listing when you run them from a
shortcut unless you turn autostart off in the application's menu as
described above.

Chirs wrote:

can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from automatically
running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be available, I
just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't want the
icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much

"Chirs" wrote in message
...
can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from automatically
running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be available,
I
just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't want
the
icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much


Go here, but be prepared to spend some quality learning time....

http://www.greatis.com/

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:35:02 -0800, "Chirs"
wrote:

can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from automatically
running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be available, I
just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't want the
icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much

Alternatively, there are a number of 3rd party programs widely
available as shareware or freeware that achieve the same purpose, e.g.
StartEd from http://www.outertech.com

First pick one of these to identify what loads at boot. Next, see
whether there is an option in it's menus to disable it from starting up.
If you really want to rid yourself of it on a more permanent basis, then
look for it in "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs". However, it isn't
often easy to know what is what in there. One of these URL's may say.
Only last, go to StartUpCop.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q137367
Startup Items
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q179/3/65.asp
Startup Group
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q282107 Startup
http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sheppard.p/startup.htm
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_a.htm
http://www.djbdesigns.com/wtvzone/startup.html
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
http://www.rickrogers.org/clean.htm
http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/start.htm
http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

http://www.pcmag.com/ 's StartUpCop has "undo", and it is more than a
combination of "START, Run, MSInfo32, Software Environment, Startup
Programs" and "START, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". It can even do a
permanent delete. Of course, first see whether the app has an option in
it's own menus to remove itself from the Startup Group. This is
configurable, and one may maintain multiple configurations.

Update definitions & check for viruses, and...
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot
http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html SpyBot- Search & Destroy. SpyBot
is gabby in it's "Checks" & "Fixes" logs. Turn them off in "Settings".
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ AdAware
http://www.lavasoftusa.de/ Also AdAware
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html CoolWebSearch Chronicles
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip & CWShredder
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip Finally, Hijack This
http://aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm
Hijack This Logs Tutorial-- MUST read!
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jrmc137/hj...l/tutorial.htm
Another one worthy of serious study!
....may find something. (Actually, they certainly will.)

.......Quote..........................
Download and run Hijack This, but don't remove anything with it yet:
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
Follow the instructions at this Tutorial:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
to save the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these
forums:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=11
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-b.../ikonboard.cgi
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=499

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
....End of quote..............


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Chirs" wrote in message
...
| can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from
automatically
| running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be
available, I
| just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't
want the
| icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much
|

PCR, this link is not working. http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php

Do you mean this link? http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html

"PCR" wrote in message
...
First pick one of these to identify what loads at boot. Next, see
whether there is an option in it's menus to disable it from starting up.
If you really want to rid yourself of it on a more permanent basis, then
look for it in "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs". However, it isn't
often easy to know what is what in there. One of these URL's may say.
Only last, go to StartUpCop.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q137367
Startup Items
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q179/3/65.asp
Startup Group
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q282107 Startup
http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sheppard.p/startup.htm
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_a.htm
http://www.djbdesigns.com/wtvzone/startup.html
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
http://www.rickrogers.org/clean.htm
http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/start.htm
http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

http://www.pcmag.com/ 's StartUpCop has "undo", and it is more than a
combination of "START, Run, MSInfo32, Software Environment, Startup
Programs" and "START, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". It can even do a
permanent delete. Of course, first see whether the app has an option in
it's own menus to remove itself from the Startup Group. This is
configurable, and one may maintain multiple configurations.

Update definitions & check for viruses, and...
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot
http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html SpyBot- Search & Destroy. SpyBot
is gabby in it's "Checks" & "Fixes" logs. Turn them off in "Settings".
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ AdAware
http://www.lavasoftusa.de/ Also AdAware
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html CoolWebSearch Chronicles
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip & CWShredder
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip Finally, Hijack This
http://aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm
Hijack This Logs Tutorial-- MUST read!
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jrmc137/hj...l/tutorial.htm
Another one worthy of serious study!
...may find something. (Actually, they certainly will.)

......Quote..........................
Download and run Hijack This, but don't remove anything with it yet:
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
Follow the instructions at this Tutorial:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
to save the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these
forums:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=11
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-b.../ikonboard.cgi
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=499

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
...End of quote..............


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Chirs" wrote in message
...
| can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from
automatically
| running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be
available, I
| just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't
want the
| icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much
|

"=?Utf-8?B?Q2hpcnM=?=" wrote in
:

can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from
automatically running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton
to be available, I just dont want it to start until i do it manually.
Also, i don't want the icon to removed from the quick start toolbar.
Thank you very much


I recommend:

http://www.sysinternals.com/
ProcessExplorer
Autoruns

Yes, it does seem that is what I meant. I have made the correction,
thanks. Looks like the original I posted would have gotten there,
nevertheless...

......Quote............
Multiple Choices
The document name you requested (/startupinfo.php) could not be found on
this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one
you requested.
Available documents:

/startupinfo.html (common basename)
http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html
......EOQ..............

All of my URLs were gathered at this NG, by the way. I seem to have
stopped at 348 of them. Some day, I've got a lot o' clickn' to do!

(At least this wasn't as bad as the day I passed along a porn site!)


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Dan" wrote in message
...
| PCR, this link is not working. http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
|
| Do you mean this link? http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html
|
| "PCR" wrote in message
| ...
| First pick one of these to identify what loads at boot. Next, see
| whether there is an option in it's menus to disable it from starting
up.
| If you really want to rid yourself of it on a more permanent basis,
then
| look for it in "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs". However, it
isn't
| often easy to know what is what in there. One of these URL's may
say.
| Only last, go to StartUpCop.
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q137367
| Startup Items
| http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q179/3/65.asp
| Startup Group
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q282107
Startup
| http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm
| http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sheppard.p/startup.htm
| http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_a.htm
| http://www.djbdesigns.com/wtvzone/startup.html
| http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
| http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
| http://www.rickrogers.org/clean.htm
| http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
| http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/start.htm
| http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
| http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
|
| http://www.pcmag.com/ 's StartUpCop has "undo", and it is more than
a
| combination of "START, Run, MSInfo32, Software Environment, Startup
| Programs" and "START, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". It can even do a
| permanent delete. Of course, first see whether the app has an option
in
| it's own menus to remove itself from the Startup Group. This is
| configurable, and one may maintain multiple configurations.
|
| Update definitions & check for viruses, and...
| http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
| http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
| http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot
| http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html SpyBot- Search & Destroy.
SpyBot
| is gabby in it's "Checks" & "Fixes" logs. Turn them off in
"Settings".
| http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ AdAware
| http://www.lavasoftusa.de/ Also AdAware
| http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html CoolWebSearch Chronicles
| http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip & CWShredder
| http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip Finally, Hijack This
| http://aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm
| Hijack This Logs Tutorial-- MUST read!
| http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jrmc137/hj...l/tutorial.htm
| Another one worthy of serious study!
| ...may find something. (Actually, they certainly will.)
|
| ......Quote..........................
| Download and run Hijack This, but don't remove anything with it yet:
| http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
| Follow the instructions at this Tutorial:
| http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
| to save the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these
| forums:
| http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=11
| http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-b.../ikonboard.cgi
| http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=499
|
| --
| Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
| http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
| ...End of quote..............
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "Chirs" wrote in message
| ...
| | can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from
| automatically
| | running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be
| available, I
| | just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't
| want the
| | icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much
| |
|
|
|
|

You're welcome!

"PCR" wrote in message
...
Yes, it does seem that is what I meant. I have made the correction,
thanks. Looks like the original I posted would have gotten there,
nevertheless...

.....Quote............
Multiple Choices
The document name you requested (/startupinfo.php) could not be found on
this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one
you requested.
Available documents:

/startupinfo.html (common basename)
http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html
.....EOQ..............

All of my URLs were gathered at this NG, by the way. I seem to have
stopped at 348 of them. Some day, I've got a lot o' clickn' to do!

(At least this wasn't as bad as the day I passed along a porn site!)


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Dan" wrote in message
...
| PCR, this link is not working. http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
|
| Do you mean this link? http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html
|
| "PCR" wrote in message
| ...
| First pick one of these to identify what loads at boot. Next, see
| whether there is an option in it's menus to disable it from starting
up.
| If you really want to rid yourself of it on a more permanent basis,
then
| look for it in "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs". However, it
isn't
| often easy to know what is what in there. One of these URL's may
say.
| Only last, go to StartUpCop.
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q137367
| Startup Items
| http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q179/3/65.asp
| Startup Group
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q282107
Startup
| http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm
| http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sheppard.p/startup.htm
| http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_a.htm
| http://www.djbdesigns.com/wtvzone/startup.html
| http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
| http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
| http://www.rickrogers.org/clean.htm
| http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
| http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/start.htm
| http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
| http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
|
| http://www.pcmag.com/ 's StartUpCop has "undo", and it is more than
a
| combination of "START, Run, MSInfo32, Software Environment, Startup
| Programs" and "START, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". It can even do a
| permanent delete. Of course, first see whether the app has an option
in
| it's own menus to remove itself from the Startup Group. This is
| configurable, and one may maintain multiple configurations.
|
| Update definitions & check for viruses, and...
| http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
| http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
| http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot
| http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html SpyBot- Search & Destroy.
SpyBot
| is gabby in it's "Checks" & "Fixes" logs. Turn them off in
"Settings".
| http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ AdAware
| http://www.lavasoftusa.de/ Also AdAware
| http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html CoolWebSearch Chronicles
| http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip & CWShredder
| http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip Finally, Hijack This
| http://aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm
| Hijack This Logs Tutorial-- MUST read!
| http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jrmc137/hj...l/tutorial.htm
| Another one worthy of serious study!
| ...may find something. (Actually, they certainly will.)
|
| ......Quote..........................
| Download and run Hijack This, but don't remove anything with it yet:
| http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
| Follow the instructions at this Tutorial:
| http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
| to save the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these
| forums:
| http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=11
| http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-b.../ikonboard.cgi
| http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=499
|
| --
| Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
| http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
| ...End of quote..............
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "Chirs" wrote in message
| ...
| | can someone please tell me the steps to stop a program from
| automatically
| | running at windows startup. I still want the applicaton to be
| available, I
| | just dont want it to start until i do it manually. Also, i don't
| want the
| | icon to removed from the quick start toolbar. Thank you very much
| |
|
|
|
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