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I am talking about the menu in msconfig (system configuration) for windows operating systems. On the Startup tab I will uncheck things I don't want to run on startup such as Adobe reader, or Itunes, or Google Music and if I restart my computer they run at startup anyways and are magically checked again when I look at the menu.

What am I not understanding about this menu? My first thought was that only slimy programs or malware would do this, but even major players like google, apple, and adobe are doing it? Is it intentional?

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  • If you delete the entry from the register that handles this behavior this its not possible for them to start-up. So that tells me you are just disabling them for the single reboot which is what typically most people actually want.
    – Ramhound
    Jul 18, 2014 at 19:56
  • msconfig can be a little titchy some times. try sysinternals autoruns instead. Jul 18, 2014 at 19:58
  • So this menu isn't for permanently stopping things from running on startup? Just for one reboot cycle? I did not know that.
    – ACD
    Jul 18, 2014 at 19:58
  • No, it's not just one reboot: the problem is that many programs insert this setting each time they are called. This means that if you don't run a program during a boot cycle the start-up setting will remain disabled. Unless a program allows you to disable "Start with Windows" as an internal setting, you are stuck with this behaviour, frustrating as it is. The only work-round might be to clear these settings as part of a shut-down procedure, but even then it may fail if one of these programs is active at shut-down and re-inserts its start-up setting when it receives the terminate signal.
    – AFH
    Jul 18, 2014 at 20:30
  • That is frustrating. Is the root cause of this poor OS design? You'd think there'd be a way to prevent this from happening permanently to prevent this kind of lame behavior.
    – ACD
    Jul 18, 2014 at 20:32

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Try to disable autorun from the application itself, or delete entries from this registry path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

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