Stopping software from starting when Windows starts?

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Ted Jensen

Background:
Windows XP + SP2
Program: BackUp4All.exe
Statement of Problem:
Have had program for several months and has
been working fine. Ran into minor problem.
Uninstalled... did a new install. During new
install inadverdently selecte option to load
when loading Windows. Once that happened, when
I loaded Windows and attempted to run program
received notice that it was already running.
Checked with msconfig.exe and found it was
listed in Startup list. Deselected it at that
point, rebooted and everything okay!....

Except... I keep getting warning on booting
that I am in non-standard startup mode. While
I can check this so the warning doesn't appear,
what I would really like to do is remove it from
the Startup list completely. But I don't know
how to do that.

In checking the Startup directory, (including those associated with
all user's and the 'common' one) I don't see many of the programs
found in the list displayed by msconfig.exe. That includes this one.
Since there is nothing there I can't very well eliminate it. It
always shows up in msconfig however.

I suppose I could search through
the registry and eliminate all lines referencing
the program, then go back and do another install,
but would prefer an easier way if anyone can tell
me how. Any help out there for this?

Ted-
 
Background:
Windows XP + SP2
Program: BackUp4All.exe
Statement of Problem:
Have had program for several months and has
been working fine. Ran into minor problem.
Uninstalled... did a new install. During new
install inadverdently selecte option to load
when loading Windows. Once that happened, when
I loaded Windows and attempted to run program
received notice that it was already running.
Checked with msconfig.exe and found it was
listed in Startup list. Deselected it at that
point, rebooted and everything okay!....

Except... I keep getting warning on booting
that I am in non-standard startup mode. While
I can check this so the warning doesn't appear,
what I would really like to do is remove it from
the Startup list completely. But I don't know
how to do that.

In checking the Startup directory, (including those associated with
all user's and the 'common' one) I don't see many of the programs
found in the list displayed by msconfig.exe. That includes this one.
Since there is nothing there I can't very well eliminate it. It
always shows up in msconfig however.

I suppose I could search through
the registry and eliminate all lines referencing
the program, then go back and do another install,
but would prefer an easier way if anyone can tell
me how. Any help out there for this?

Ted-
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MISTAKES here can SCREW your computer into the ground so be careful and
make a backup first. If you don't know how regedit works don't do this.

You can use regedit to see more programs that run at startup.
Look at the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You can just delete the entries that list programs you don't want to
automatically start.
 
Thanks Mike! I'm familiar enough with Regedit to treat it with
respect! However, when I went looking where you directed
I could not find the program listed there among the others.
So, I started over. I made sure that it was checked in the
msconfigure startup list as usual, I rebooted and again checked
that it was still there. I then went to the Task Manager and found it
listed there under Processes. Then I looked in the registry once
more and, again, it is not listed there!

Any other suggestions would be welcome. BTW, it might help me if I
understood a bit more about the order in which things are loaded, sort
of a 'which came first the chicken or egg' kind of thing. I assume
the registry is loaded off the hard drive early on... and that
msconfig.exe is getting its info from the registry... but somehow it
is not clear in my mind as to exactly how things work when I make a
change to msconfig and then reboot.

Again.. any help you can give will be appreciated.

Ted Jensen
 
Hi Ted,
Were you able to solve the problem? If not maybe the support team can assist
you. You can contact them directly from Backup4all's Help menu->Support
request.
I'm sure the problem will be solved.

P.S. Thank you for using Backup4all :)
 
Thanks! Will do! I like the program a lot. Didn't go that route
because I thought the problem was with XP, not Backup4all!

Ted-
 
After contacting you, you solved the problem quickly. Nothing wrong
with the software, the problem was the operator! Anyway, I would like
to say that I really like the program, as well. Again, thanks for
your help!

Ted-
 
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