Start Up Programs Win7 64

[Attila the Bun]

Guys,

I'm trying to prevent various programs automatically kicking off when win7 loads.

In XP I had a lovely little stand alone program that only required I tick box those programs I wanted to start automatically.

A friend's vista had an inbuilt facility to do exactly the same. An I assume that 7 has the same facility.

Trouble is I can't find it anywhere. I even tried the same route as vista but no joy.

Can any of you kind people point me in the right direction please.

Many Thanks

[Lee H]

MSCONFIG

type that in the run bar and you can go in and stop applications from starting up when windows loads up

[Attila the Bun]

Thanks Lee

[smargh]

msconfig misses a lot, but it does have some useful aspects.

Autoruns is my first recommendation for this request.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx

[Rob_B]

CCleaner also does, let's you disable or delete them (amongst other stuff of course)

[Attila the Bun]

CCleaner also does, let's you disable or delete them (amongst other stuff of course)

I like ccleaner...used it alot on XP, but I thought I would see what 7 can do before I start clogging up my lovely new hard drive.

msconfig misses a lot, but it does have some useful aspects.

Autoruns is my first recommendation for this request.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx

Not heard of this before. Is it win7 compatable..presumably so otherwise you wouldn't have highlighted it...more importantly though is it attila proof.

[smargh]

[re. autoruns]

Not heard of this before. Is it win7 compatible..presumably so otherwise you wouldn't have highlighted it...more importantly though is it attila proof.

It's fine with Windows 7 x32 & x64 - it's regularly updated by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft. There are many other Sysinternals tools available. The most common ones I use during malware removal and general diagnostics are Process Explorer, Process Monitor and Autoruns. At work I very regularly use psexec, pslist, pskill, bginfo, psshutdown, adexplorer, psloggedon and probably a bunch of others.

Autoruns ain't difficult. Just untick a box to stop it from starting. I can imagine, however, that unticking the wrong thing could screw things up completely.

[Attila the Bun]

I can imagine, however, that unticking the wrong thing could screw things up completely.

HAHA...A challenge

Actually, thanks for this, I'll have a closer look when I have a moment. To be honest I just wanted to turn off messenger and a couple of other things that I know from past experience kick off with out waiting for the ref's whistle.