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Program Start Up problems

by stokesay34 Jun 13, 2005 5:08AM PDT

I really really hope somebody can help me with a rather annoying problem thats cropped up from nowhere. Basically here is my problem.

Mainly most of my programs will not start up when I start my pc. At the moment I'm having to put things in the start up folder on the start menu. I have tried to add things using the TuneUp StartUp Manager in TuneUp Utilities 2004 - but this frustratingly fails to work (it won't even delete rehistry start up entries). I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling programs, but still they dont get added to the start up entries in the registry. So I reformated my hard disk and reinstalled Windows - but the problem has come back again - only a few hours after the reinstall!

To make matters worse, if I uninstall programs that have entries in the registry start up, I can't get rid of the start up. I've tried deleting these start up things in the registry and using msconfig, but somehow they keep being recreated!

I have run a virus scan using Norton and run an Ad-aware scan but nothing comes up - afterall I only reinstalled Windows this morning! I am using Windows XP Home Edition and I have Service Pack 2 installed. If anybody can help me or has any ideas then I'd be really really grateful, thanks.

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by AussiePete Jun 13, 2005 5:49AM PDT

one of the programs you are installing is buggering things up - more than likely be an older 3rd party program. The only thing I can suggest is loading all the safe programs first, such as MS Office - then one-by-one slowly introduce other programs and make sure the system is OK after each introduction. It could even be a driver/software package that was not intended for XP that works close to the system, and therefore requires the version of windows for which it was intended.
Also read the systems requirements of each program you install - look specifically for ones that state they will not run on windows NT, 2000 or XP.
If you are at a loss to which it may be, then list the names of your software and give a brief discription of the less known packages.
Peter

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