To many programs in startup after installs

[acen2006]

Would anyone be able to help me, I install aload of applications through WPI about 40 but alot of these applications put themselves on the start menu so after reboot I have about 6 or 7 apps automatically running . All I want running is my antivirus... etc as the rest are not essential.

I will soon be adding more applications and I will continue to encounter this problem.

Is there anyway I can stop this ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Edited February 17, 2007 by acen2006

[rajesh.kumar]

i use a cmd file for this purpose. how i use can be understood by going thru the file.

STARTMENU.CMD

[ajua]

you can do many things to prevent programs from running at windows startup. first, make sure to configure your programs the way you wan and disable the ones you dont want to load. then export the registry keys for their settings and import them when you install them on WPI.

for the ones that you dont have settings check your registry to see the keys in the startup section. this also works for program's that install services.

example:

this line removes the register extension service of windvd

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IviRegMgr]
"Start"=dword:00000003

this one disables the Program Updates of some application that use installshield

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"ISUSPM"=-

do this for every startup entry you have.