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Help! Dell Inspiron stuck in startup repair, unable to fix automatically, and I have no recovery disk ...I tried system restore but think I mite have messed something up after losing my patience ....

how do i get rid of unnecessary applications running in the background as seen in my system tray? How can I prevent them from starting up every time i restart?'

Hello, I turn on my computer (windows 7 64bit)and everything loads up fine. I click on a icon, cursor goes around and then nothing. Restarting the PC and sometimes it works OK. Other times turn off completely w/full reboot, turn on and sometimes I'm OK. Sometimes it takes usually 2-3 times however today I was OK the after the first restart. I feel a reintall coming on unless anyone can help?? Dave

Hello! I recently tried to follow the instructions in the article 'how to disable startup programs in windows...'. The process seemed to work until after the re-start when I got a serious looking message that basically told me to reinstate everything to a previous date point to avoid damaging the computer. Well I did that because I'm insecure about the inner mysteries of the computer, but would still like to get rid of automatic start-up of my photo programs and other things. So what is really necessary in the start-up and how do I bypass the rather demanding order to re-instate everything after I've unticked the things I think are not needed? Thank you all in advance for your help. My operating system is Windows XP. Liz

Hello I am try to sign up for a TextPlus on my Ipod. But it's said Error "Sorry. You must be at least 13 years old to use textPlus " So, i am 29 years old right now. Then How to sing up for this app on ipod?

Most of the time when you install an application, the application likes to automatically start when Windows boots. It does this by adding itself to a registry key. Here are a few of the startup registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesHKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce Usually the program can be found in one of those keys, but sometimes instead it will add itself to the startup folders: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup%C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup% I've tried locking down these locations by adjusting who can edit these, but that makes it really hard to add applications to them that you actually DO want running at Startup. Does anyone have an easier way of blocking applications from adding themselves to Startup in Windows, while at the same time allowing you to add the ones that you like to startup. Perhaps if we could just block installers from adding to startup that would be best.