Windows startup programs are used for convenience. For example, it would save time for certain programs to pop up at computer startup rather than one to find the program and launch it manually.
You can use Windows Defender to disable programs that run at startup, or using System Configuration.
add/remove programs
C:\ProgramsData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\ProgramsData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Click Start > All programs > Startup
Startup programs are programs that are started when you boot up your computer. To select what programs you do or do not want to open at startup you will need to search for and open the 'msconfig.exe' file. Once 'msconfig.exe' is open, click on the Startup tab, you will see a list of programs. From this list you can select or deselect what programs should open at startup.
C:\Documents and Settings\username\StartMenu\Programs\Startup
add/remove programs applet in the control panel !
Startup Programs
You click on windows task manager and drag it onto the start button and the start menu will pop up.Then drag it onto the all programs button and the programs menu will pop up.Then drag onto the startup folder. = =
Event Viewer tells you where and when errors happen including Windows Startup.
To add/remove programs to start automatically use the "StartUp" Menu on "Start" "Programs". On XP is located on X:\Documents and Settings\XXXXX\Start\Programs. Where XXXXX is the user name or "All Users". To check/remove programs that start automatically but are not located on the "StartUp" folder you can use the "msconfig" and select the "startup" tab and uncheck the programs that you do not want to load or the "regedit" on "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" and delete the keys for the programs that you don't want to load. ...WARNING...be extra carefull with the "regedit" since this DB is the windows guts.