Hidden Startups 1

[Dooda]

Office Communicator is starting up automatically on booting which is a nuisance as the VPN connection is not then established so it fails. However I cannot prevent it as it does not appear in the startup menu for my username or for all users. I also cannot find anything helpful in the registry, although I do not know where to look and just did some searches. Anyone know what starts it?

 

[TheLad]

You can look in either:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

or

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

however you may be better off by running MSCONFIG from Start/Run and getting the information off the Startup tab

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[DrD123]

Hi Dooda,

Here's a much better product that gives you much more control than MSCONFIG:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/AutoRuns.mspx

It was originally by Sysinternals, but since M$ bought them, it's now under them.

It allows you to control not only programs, but drivers, etc... as well.

Good Luck
DrD

 

[Dooda]

Many thanks for the responses, guys. AutoRuns does seem to cover everything (at least I hope there isn't more than it is showing!) and makes it easy to turn things off, so I have fixed the time-wasting annoyance. Cannot get AutoRuns help to work though, but didn't need it for what I did.