startup

[donk]

Here's my deal, I go into start up and unchecked several programs I do not want to run. This is all good for about two start ups when again these programs start running. I can keep going into system configurations startup panel, but that gets old, and it also defeats the whole purpose of stopping the programs from running in the first place, Google is one of the programs that likes to rear it's head now and then, along with several others. Anyway, if you can help that would be great.

Thanks,

DONK

[Irene]

Hello donk, welcome to the forum. :D

I don't know what you use to select items for startup, but I can recommend this....

STARTUP INSPECTOR... It's free and very easy to use.

Just press Consult, then using the legend on the bottom left-hand side, choose which items to exclude from your startup.

If you have any problems, please post back and we'll try to help. :)

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Google is one of the programs that likes to rear it's head now and then

Google is not a program, but a company. Which of course offers many programs - which is it that you mean? I have many Google applications, but none of them forces itself into the startup list.

[Dencandy]

The Windows Start Up folder is pretty useless. Most programmes have ways of by-passing it. On this computer my Start up folder is actually empty, but still programmes start. Start Up Inspector recommended by Irene is excellent and will stop most programmes you don't want running. Some, like Quick Time, will re-insert themselves as start ups as soon as you use them again, so then you have to use Start Up Inspector once more to stop it. One tip, don't stop all the programmes you don't want running in one session. Stop one, then use your computer for a few minutes, then stop another, and so on. The reason is, if you stop them all in one go, and then something goes wrong, you won't know which caused the problem.

Also, Start Up Inspector doesn't delete programmes, just stops them loading at boot up.