XP - Managing startup applications

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Stuh505

Limp Gawd
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The first thing I use is msconfig.exe

This tool has some significant shortcomings
* It contains blank or misnamed entries
* It does not allow completely deleting an item from the list
* It does not list all the 3rd programs that may be registered to startup
* It allows items to lie about their location

The second thing I use is regedit.exe
Most items are located in SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENT_VERSION/RUN ...

My problems:

1) The registry keys contained in this location (under HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE etc) do not account for all the items listed in msconfig startup. I need to find some of these items to remove them.

2) There are some additional applications starting up automatically that I want to get rid of (eg, VNC which has security vulnerabilities, but is not listed anywhere I look...yet it starts up)
 
Startup.cpl is what I install on every machine I own or service.
 
Never use msconfig unless dire consequences say so and the reason for is that as soon as you change anything in msconfig it'll change the startup options to a "diagnostic mode"

I've used TONs of programs and modified the registry to change stuff that starts upon start and the one by Codestuff is by far the best I've come across yet.

http://codestuff.tripod.com/products_starter.html
 
diagnostic mode means nothing more than "you've changed startup items."
 
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