Startup

mel123

My startup folder is empty, however i know that there should be stuff there, for example messenger starts up automatically on startup, im in the start folder, then startup subfolder, is that the only place??

PowerHouseDan

Start/All programs/startup

Capt'n Midnight

get autoruns from www.sysinternals.com

or try running msconfig

there are LOADS of places where things startup from

Ruu_Old

Messenger wouldnt be in the startup folder, as Capt'n Midnight said there are a lot of places related to the startup of programs in Windows.

Karoma

Start -> Run -> msconfig (Startup items are safe to mess with; obviously, leave anything anti-virus alone. For services: hide microsoft services before you go disabling.)
Unticked = "don't start automatically when the machine does."
Ticked = "do start..."
This doesn't remove the software - just it's starting...

PowerHouseDan

ops i didnt actually read it prop... As Karoma said

mel123

Karoma wrote:

Start -> Run -> msconfig (Startup items are safe to mess with; obviously, leave anything anti-virus alone. For services: hide microsoft services before you go disabling.)
Unticked = "don't start automatically when the machine does."
Ticked = "do start..."
This doesn't remove the software - just it's starting...

BINGO, thank you. The amount of cr@p in there, no wonder my laptop was taking so long to boot up.

sioda

Even more than MS config shows if you dont mind a bit of regedit back up first go to run regedit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and look at whats there also HKEY_Local_machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Deleting any keys here will stop them from starting at boot up