How to stop programs from launching on startup 3

[Tina2002]

Hi

I have a couple of things that pop up upon startup, and I cannot figure out where they are located.

One of them is a window for norton antivirus, and the other one is my printer.

When I go to file, properties on the window, there are no properties on that file, i don't know why.

When I go to run > msconfig, and I look in the list of things that are launched upon startup, i cannot find the name of the 2 items i mentioned above.

How do I find them and disable these two things upon startup?

Thanks!

 

[muthabored]

Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

On the right side of the screen, delete whatever you don't want to load when you start up your computer by right-clicking on the item under Name and selecting Delete.

 

[jonybd]

Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

And

Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

and then if you are useing Winxp , Right click on Run and click permissions > Make Read only and remove full control

you are setup for advanced attack

 

[wantstolearncfm]

Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3 Download it,
go to advanced view then tools > system startup
If your lucky it will be in there

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?1294

ASPY32 (an application stolen from bcastner) tells you what startsup for every user.
Startup Inspector

http://www.windowsstartup.com/download.php

Can do a similar thing telling you what starts up and tries to tell you what it actually is.
Hope this helps

 

[bpatters55]

Also try,

run, "msconfig" and uncheck any programs that you do not want to load into start-up\memory.

 

[wantstolearncfm]

When I go to run > msconfig, and I look in the list of things that are launched upon startup, i cannot find the name of the 2 items i mentioned above

run, "msconfig"

The question is how to find items that startup not listed in MSconfig.;-)

 

[bcastner]

very good:

http://www.windowsstartup.com/

Excellent autostart lister:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml