Delete Start-up Items

[4harpers]

Hi, I am running Win98SE. Whenever I go to MSCONFIG/STARTUP there are a lot of programs and some spyware and some programs that I do not use on startup. Even though these programs are unchecked, I would like to remove them from the registry so they dont show up. Would someone show me how? Or, should I just leave them alone. Thanks for your time.

[Miz]

Deleting items from Msconfig's Startup list requires editing the Registry, so make sure your Registry is backed up before you start tinkering.

Once you've finished backing up the Registry, select Start, Run, enter regedit, and press Enter. Navigating the left pane of the Registry Editor as if it were Windows Explorer, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run-. Note the hyphen (-) at the end of the address (believe me, you do not want to go to \CurrentVersion\Run). Once there, you can delete any listing in the right pane.

You may be able to identify several other unchecked start-up items in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices-. Once again, note that final hyphen. (Source (http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,103817,pg,4,00.asp))

[Idnew]

Be sure you know what your deleting from the registry. where you typed in msconfig.......type in regedit then HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE/software.......prowl around and see what you don't want then just click on it and delete it. You can do that in the user section also.

Oh first try to uninstall anything you don't want and it might or might not take it out of the registry

[4harpers]

Thanks for the quick response. You all explained it very well for even a beginner like me. I will back-up before doing anything