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  3. March 2008

Re: Cleaning up XP startup applications

Dave,

I don't know where to tell you to look on the system, but CCleaner and
WinPatrol both show startup jobs that aren't in the Startup program group.
I'm still playing with WinPatrol to see if I'll use it on all my home pcs,
but CCleaner has been very useful and tracked down several unneeded startup
programs on my wife's computer. I normally use CCleaner to remove unneeded
files.

Mark Plank

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:16 PM, <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a couple of PC's running XP that have applications that start up
when they boot. They aren't in the Startup program group so where are
they defined as startup jobs? In older versions of Windows there was a
WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI where those kind of things could hide. Where
should I look in XP? Somewhere in the registry?

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