How to prevent programs launching at startup?

Posted: 01-21-2009, 10:23 AM

OldGrantonian

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With XP, I used Mike Lin's StartupMonitor. The purpose was to preven
programs from installing themselves to launch at startup. StartupMonito
gave me the option to allow or not to allow

The usual culprits were Adobe, Flash, Realplay, etc

In Vista, is there any way to prevent such programs from launching a
startup

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Re: How to prevent programs launching at startup?

Posted: 01-21-2009, 10:47 AM

Vista includes the MSCONFIG.EXE utility the same as XP did and it can block
startup programs.

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> With XP, I used Mike Lin's StartupMonitor. The purpose was to prevent
> programs from installing themselves to launch at startup. StartupMonitor
> gave me the option to allow or not to allow.
>
> The usual culprits were Adobe, Flash, Realplay, etc.
>
> In Vista, is there any way to prevent such programs from launching at
> startup?
> .
>
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