How To Prevent Specific Applications From Starting Automatically With Windows

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This can be carried out in the following manner:

Step-1 Open the regedit.exe file.

Step-2 Scroll down the following registry keys

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windows]

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Step-1 Within the above registry keys, look for and delete corresponding entries of the applications that you want to prevent from automatically getting loaded into the Windows Registry.

Step-2 Other places that one can also look are the Start Up folder (C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp) and the win.ini file.

Step-3 Exit the Windows Registry. You might need to restart the Windows session for the changes to come into effect.

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