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texasboy:
I regularily use msconfig to set my start up to only my antivirus and firewall. Speeds up the time on start up. How do you delete old items on the start up list? I have one programme(pal evidence eliminator) supposedly in programme file which was deleted long time ago ,but keeps popping up during scans. Does not show up in programmes or search ,including hidden files. It was originally downloaded from a PC magazine cdr. Is it that good that it can remain hidden from me? Where can I find the remains.regedit???
cheers

chip!:
this is my personal favorite:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

much more powerful than msconfig... and you can easily delete the entries from your registry, etc..

but the entries that are disabled in msconfig go to a special folder in your registry..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-Disabled   or something like that.. i ferget

Quantum:
Some programs can hide themselves deep inside a system, Windows isn't designed to be open and transparent.

I use Spybot S&D advanced tools to find a lot of stuff. There are some other good programs and there is the traditional learning how these programs actually hide themselves and going in to the system manually.

texasboy:

--- Quote from: chip! on August 10, 2006, 07:50:46 am ---this is my personal favorite:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

much more powerful than msconfig... and you can easily delete the entries from your registry, etc..

but the entries that are disabled in msconfig go to a special folder in your registry..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-Disabled   or something like that.. i ferget

--- End quote ---

Looks great. Now just give me a few seconds to digest  ::). It` a toss up between  looking at Chips info or taking better half out to supper, Who do you thiink won. ;D. will try info a little later.lol
cheers

MinLo:
.........HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg..........If your trying to delete old/disabled items from the list and are using XP........

I was wondering this also,I tried Chip's location to no avail.......So I did a lil' googling and found this location........I had like 10 items I didn't use or want and now it's all cleaned up  ;D

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