How do I find the unknown program enabled during Start-Up?
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00:00 How Do I Find The Unknown Program Enabled During Start-Up?
00:40 Accepted Answer Score 38
01:08 Answer 2 Score 10
02:07 Answer 3 Score 31
02:29 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 38
You can go to Microsoft Downloads, SysInternals and get Autoruns 64-bit (download it here). Download it, install it and run it and see if it shows you the program on your computer.
For your specific problem, access the "Logon" Tab.
Yellow highlighted sections in the Autoruns display are errors and can be deleted.
That should solve your problem.
ANSWER 2
Score 31
You can rightclick on an entry and click Open file location
wich leads you to the directory where the program is installed.
As mentioned in the comments by Ismael Miguel this answer only applies to Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (and the Windows Server variants). For Windows 7 and older, you need to use msconfig.
ANSWER 3
Score 10
Start-up entries are in the registry at Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
, and Software\WOW6432Node\...
for 32-bit programs. There is one of these keys for each user and machine. For the current session that would be under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
and HKEY_CURRENT_USER
.
Any shortcuts in a Start Menu group called Startup (Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
) will also be run. Again there are both per-user and per-machine locations, under %AllUsersProfile%
and %AppData%
for the current session.
Additionally, a scheduled task can be set to run at boot or login. This data is also in the registry Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule
, but in a much more complex format. This can be explored with the "Task Scheduler" app.