There are basically three places programs hide to run
when you enter Windows.
The First Place, in the
Startup group of your Start > Programs. Right-click on the Start
button and choose Open. Then, double-click on the Programs icon and
then on the Startup icon. Anything you see here, in the Startup
group, is run when Windows starts. You can remove these by simply
dragging them to the Recycling Bin.
The second place is in the
WIN.INI file. To see this, press the Start button, choose Run, and
then type simple WIN.INI and click 'OK'. In the first section, after
RUN= or LOAD= you will see the path to programs that are run at
startup, separated by semi-colons (;).
The third place, and most
unlikely place is in the registry. Click the Start button and hit
Run. Then type 'regedit' and hit 'OK'. Now, I wouldn't recommend
this for inexperienced users. But, check out the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
key for any programs there. Good luck!
