Here's our Tip for.. June 18, 1998
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Stop Programs from starting at Start Up
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Chances are you have one or more programs that automatically start every time you fire up Windows 95. Worst of all, you may not know where these programs are starting from or even how they got there. Software developers have a whole lotta nerve to assume this is a convenience since most of these applications start automatically by default.

There are three places where you can try to stop this annoyance:

The Startup folder. This is the most obvious location for a program reference. Right-mouse click on Start, select Open, double-click on Programs, then double-click on the Startup folder. If you see a shortcut to the annoying program inside, delete it.

Your WIN.INI file. Select Start, Run, type sysedit and click on OK. Inside the System Configuration Editor, click on the WIN.INI window, to make it active and look for a run= or load= line under the [windows] section. Programs referred to on these lines load at startup, and they're generally entered by their full path name.

If you feel comfortable doing so, remove the reference to the annoying program, and save your change.

The Registry. Before you begin here, we've told you in the past about editing your registry, so in case you don't know exactly what you're doing, we suggest you leave this one alone, and even if you DO know, don't proceed without a backup.

Select Start, Run, type regedit and click on OK to open the Registry Editor. Navigate your way to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RUN. In the right pane, you'll find programs that load when Windows 95 starts. Right-mouse click on the one you want to stop from loading, select Delete, and close the Registry Editor.

Whichever method you used, restart Windows 95 and rest assured, the offending program will have been stopped in its tracks.

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