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Prevents programs from adding themselves to start-up.

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app103:
If the applications are adding their shortcuts to the startup folder every time you use them, my Startup Bully can help by acting as an alternative launcher than can delete the shortcuts they keep making.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21221.0

It's quite effective for situations like this, when all else fails.

y0himba:
I am still using the older version of Spybot Search & Destroy. The Teatimer resident part of the software warns me and asks me if i would like to allow or not allow the entry.  Not only that, but it also warns of other registry changes as well. 

I don't recall MLin's Startup CPL ever warning me, and I have been using it since XP. Plus it is only 32 bit. Autoruns is the best way to see what is starting with your computer, and I cannot live without Tiny Watcher.

Previous version of Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2: http://www.safer-networking.org/mirrors16/
Tiny Watcher: http://kubicle.dcmembers.com/watcher/
Startup Control Panel: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml (Also has a standalone EXE)
Autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

x16wda:
I don't recall MLin's Startup CPL ever warning me
-y0himba (August 27, 2013, 02:01 PM)
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Mike Lin also did a Startup Monitor (here) that would ask you every time something tried to add itself to startup.

y0himba:
WHOA!  I cannot believe in all the time I have used Startup CPL that I never noticed that little gem.  :Thmbsup: I honestly appreciate you pointing that out, VERY useful little program.  I wonder if it can detect changes under 64bit as well...

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