Re: Cleaning up XP startup applications

["Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>