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Preventing program from running at start up

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retmet

retmet

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Dec 20, 2001
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How do I prevent a program from running at start up in Windows XP?
 
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In the Start Menu select Run and type in "msconfig" no quotes. Go to the Startup tab in the resulting screen and deselect the program.
 
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