Is it possible to find a list of programs which start up whenever you boot up?
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Is it possible to find a list of programs which start up whenever you boot up?
18-12-2009 6:19 PM
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Is there, somewhere on the pc, a list of software that starts at bootup, that I can take a look at? I want to remove the unnecessary startups if I can - or is that a bad idea?
Thanks for your help
Grumpyxch
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18-12-2009 6:25 PM
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18-12-2009 6:53 PM
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18-12-2009 6:55 PM
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Re: Is it possible to find a list of programs which start up whenever you boot up?
18-12-2009 7:32 PM
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The only way I have found to stop that happening is to retick the boxes and reboot, so in the end I haven't made any progress. I did notice that between unticking and reticking those boxes on the Startup tab, it had also changed the setting on the left-hand tab (General(?)), so maybe I need to do something there, though I dont know what.
More guidance would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Grumpyxch
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18-12-2009 7:53 PM
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John
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18-12-2009 8:46 PM
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18-12-2009 8:59 PM
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Re: Is it possible to find a list of programs which start up whenever you boot up?
19-12-2009 2:55 PM
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Quote from: penneck I have Spybot 1.6.2 on my pc, so I took a look at that. I cannot find anything that suggests it tunes startup.
You need to select Mode / Advanced Mode to see all of the available options. Settings and Tools are not displayed in Simple Mode which is the default..
See System Startup under Tools to choose processes to run at start up.
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19-12-2009 4:16 PM
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20-12-2009 11:09 AM
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Incidentally, can anyone tell me the significance of the background colours on the Spybot Startup list - why are some green, some white, and some yellow?
Thanks
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20-12-2009 3:07 PM
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The colours are explained in S&D's Help.
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20-12-2009 4:01 PM
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There is only one thing I can think of that may have removed it from the list. After unticking the box, Spybot wanted me to reboot the pc. During the reboot. WinPatrol said BBC iPlayer wanted to start, did I want to allow that. I replied No. I then tried running iPlayer from the BBC website, and it worked okay. However, when I went back to Spybot and recreated the Startup list, the iPlayer line was missing.
As for the colours, I haven't checked with Spybot yet, so I will do that in a few minutes.
Thanks
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20-12-2009 4:20 PM
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21-12-2009 10:25 AM
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Quote from: penneck However, I have just tried running msconfig. I went into the Startup tab, and unticked any box on lines that had things like Nero on them, but then everytime I booted up the system says I am in System Configuration. That then took me back into where msconfig had taken me.
To make changes to msconfig stick, when you reboot you get a message which says that you are running the startup utility (or something along those lines - I don't remember the exact wording). Before you click OK, tick the box in the bottom left corner which says something like, "do not run at startup". It won't keep going back into msconfig then, and it will remember your changes.
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