Hi can someone answer my question?

When doing a unattend cd i'm installing MSN Messenger 6.2

is there away to remove the tick in startup for the MsnMSgr or flushing the

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Run so it doesn't display

I've tried loads of differnet ways to supress it and search all over this forum for the answer and if you can will it apply to all apps that like to place them self in startup after they have been installed..

[-HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Run\*whatever messenger's key name is*]

will delete the key

See my registry section for that related question:

;Remove these programs from Run
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"MsMsgs"="-"
"jusched"="-"
"winampa"="-"
"NeroCheck"="-"
"WinampAgent"="-"
"SunJavaUpdateSched"="-"
"BluetoothAuthenticationAgent"="-"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
;"NvMediaCenter"="-"
"MsnMsgr"="-"

These apps won't auto-load themselves from the next boot-up.

They will appear in the list of apps starting at start-up (msconfig), but nothing actually gets started from that list.

@prathapml

Tried that tweak myself at the end of my batch file but failed where do you put this tweak?

It would be after the commands to install your apps. Have the key imported into the registry, then use shutdown.exe to reboot the computer. Once the reboot is complete, the startup apps will be gone.

I Used This..

Save it as.. a reg file . eg. msgrem.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Remove MSN, Yahoo & ICQ Messenger from startup
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"MsnMsgr"=-
"Yahoo! Pager"=-
"ICQ Lite"=-
"Mirabilis ICQ"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"SunJavaUpdateSched"=-
"ICQ Lite"=-
"Mirabilis ICQ"=-
"MsnMsgr"=-
"Yahoo! Pager"=-

See my registry section for that related question:

;Remove these programs from Run
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"MsMsgs"="-"
"jusched"="-"
"winampa"="-"
"NeroCheck"="-"
"WinampAgent"="-"
"SunJavaUpdateSched"="-"
"BluetoothAuthenticationAgent"="-"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
;"NvMediaCenter"="-"
"MsnMsgr"="-"

These apps won't auto-load themselves from the next boot-up.

They will appear in the list of apps starting at start-up (msconfig), but nothing actually gets started from that list.

Don't know if you know this prathapml but here is what I use to disable the nVidia media center (a lot nicer IMHO):

; Stop MediaCenter from loading.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak\OemConfigurations]
"MediaCenterLoadPolicy"=dword:00000000

Thanx for the info raverod

right got that part working is there a tweak to get apps to startup such as

objectdock when windows starts

If you know where the program is located you could add an entry like this in your reg file:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"SomeProgram"="PathToExeFile"

Edit: Could also do that for HKEY_CURRENT_USER as well.

just put there path in run, or move shortcut 2 the startup folder (easier, but less professional, in my opinion)

regards