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  3. March 2008

Re: Cleaning up XP startup applications

Another great free tool is HiJackThis which now resides at Trend Micro.
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis

It goes way beyond MSCONFIG. It started as a tool for investigating spyware and trojans but is a great tool for finding all kinds of startups including things that run when you start IE. A lot of tech help sites will ask first for a copy of its log when you are trying to find the cause of odd behavior.

Roger Vicker, CCP



On 3/7/2008 2:16 PM, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx arranged the binary bits such that:
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?


Dave Parnin


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