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Okay, when I had Windows 95, and I had programs that always opened on start up, I just went to the Start up folder within the Windows folder, and deleted them from there. Simple. Now I have windows XP and I can't find the startup folder? And lovely Quicktime doesn't seem to give me an option to stop it always running when I start up. Help?
You can use msconfig: Start -> Run -> "msconfig"
There is a part of that program that allows you to configure which programs are running. (check the "startup" tab)
If you feel like being really "technical", you can also disable/enable programs by editing your registry directly. Run "regedit", browse to HKeyLocalMachine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrectVersion/Run and you can edit/delete any keys for programs you don't want.
By the way, quicktime would be "qttask.exe". And feel free to disable it. :D
msconfig makes you restart after you change any startup values, though. Editing the actual registry item is easier (well, I think).
Yeah, exactly. But many people prefer msconfig for some reason. I'll take registry over msconfig any day. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
Maybe because msconfig has about six tabs, but it takes about five minutes of searching through the registry before anything looks likelyX.x;;
well, when you're not familiar with the registry, anyways.
I prefer msconfig first to find which startup area is causing something to startup, since there's more than one startup location, then I'll go to the registry afterwards to disable it :p
Oh yeah, I remember using this msconfig thing now. Thanks. =)