How to Stop Too Many Programs Running at Startup
May 27, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
I have recently been pissed off with so many applications loading at startup of Windows Vista. I wasn’t careful during the weekend and was installing every toolbar and running a lot of downloaded applications. As a result, so many applications load at startup and takes too long closing them up. To add up, the applications running didn’t have options to keep them from running at startup.
Anyways, the following are the things I have done to check and stop applications from running:
1. Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run” in the registry and deleted values for applications I didn’t want to run.
2. Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run” in the registry and deleted values for applications I didn’t want to run.
3. Navigate to “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup” in the registry and deleted values for applications I didn’t want to run.
4. Navigate to “C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup” in the registry and deleted values for applications I didn’t want to run.
I am sure there are tools out there that goes through all these locations and prevent them from deleting the startup applications. I would them here once I get a list of them. For now, I am happy with the results and the 4 steps above just did the trick.
Actually, there is a tool included in Windows, called ‘msconfig’ that does that….
You can access it throught Start menu -> Run -> then write “msconfig” (without “”) and press OK or hit Enter
Great guide!
This is probably the most efficient way to keep your PC running fast that I’ve found.
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Thank you.