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Bob

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Oct 15, 2010, 12:12:00 PM10/15/10
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Hello,

In XP, there was a Startup Folder which one put shortcuts to programs
that they would like to start, automatically, when the PC is first
turned on.

Is there something similar in W7 ?

Thanks,
Bob

VanguardLH

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Oct 15, 2010, 12:21:09 PM10/15/10
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Desk Rabbit

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Oct 15, 2010, 12:22:56 PM10/15/10
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chuckcar

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Oct 15, 2010, 4:59:03 PM10/15/10
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Bob <rgs...@notme.invalid> wrote in
news:i99ugm$naj$1...@news.eternal-september.org:

Same *exact* place almost certainly -
c:\windows\start menu\programs\startup. (give or take a couple capitals).


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freemont

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Oct 16, 2010, 12:50:51 AM10/16/10
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:59:03 +0000, chuckcar writ:

You fucking idiot.

You Googled that and used the first link you saw for your information.
Someone asks about Windows startup programs, you hit a search engine, and
type whatever you see in the results.

I suspect that's what you do every time you post to Usenet.

Look around in Win7 for "c:\windows\start menu" and see where it gets you.

<http://i52.tinypic.com/1yrhip.png> << that's where
<http://i54.tinypic.com/2n10qx.png> << under XP

Keep'em coming, you fool. :-þ
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alan

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Oct 16, 2010, 2:17:15 AM10/16/10
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"John Morrison" <the_mo...@com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Yes Bob, you've had other replies but the method I use is as follows:
> Click on Start/All Programs/Startup and you can delete any startups you
> no longer want to use, or drag new shortcuts to the Startup folder using
> the mouse.

Just curious --- how come when I open msconfig, i see programs listed on the
startup tab, but when I follow your method, startup is listed as "empty"?
Using XP

alan

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Oct 16, 2010, 2:58:25 AM10/16/10
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freemont

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Oct 16, 2010, 3:06:39 AM10/16/10
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:17:15 -0700, alan writ:

People tend to rely too much on msconfig and the startup folder. That's
not all there is.

The HKLM \CurrentVersion\Run area of the registry is one known hangout
for rougue applications. ;-)

To answer your question directly - it's because the startup directory and
the startup tab under msconfig do not reflect all the programs that start
up when the computer boots.

Chuckspeak: *sigh* The apps under *startup* are not all that matters for
such. A simple google search or of you're prefered search engine
*reveals* this perhaps (if you would use such for once or don't you?).


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(Getting this Chuckspeak down...)

Grinder

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Oct 16, 2010, 4:33:16 AM10/16/10
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On 10/15/2010 11:03 PM, Evan Platt wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:59:03 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar<ch...@nil.car>
> wrote:
>
>> Same *exact* place almost certainly -
>> c:\windows\start menu\programs\startup. (give or take a couple capitals).
>
> Chucktard, you need to quit giving advice to things you know nothing
> about.
>
> I don't know ANY windows version where the startup folder is in
> C:\WINDOWS ...

Please don't mistake my response as a defense of chuckcar's advice, but
Windows 98 SE uses C:\Windows\Start Menu\.. I would guess that 95
through ME use that same hierarchy.

> OP: Ignore chucktard, he's a troll.
>
> The Start folder in Win 7 is C:\Users\yourname\Start Menu .

Mike Yetto

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Oct 16, 2010, 11:22:04 AM10/16/10
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freemont <freemont...@freemontsoffice.com> writes and having writ moves on.

>Chuckspeak: *sigh* The apps under *startup* are not all that matters for
>such. A simple google search or of you're prefered search engine
>*reveals* this perhaps (if you would use such for once or don't you?).

Anyone who can come up with the previous paragraph should be
worried. You've been paying too much attention to this froup
lately.

Mike "run, save yourself (you're self)" Yetto
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In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice they are not.

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Grinder

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Oct 16, 2010, 1:57:36 PM10/16/10
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You and chuck are like the old married couple in Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf.

Aardvark

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Oct 16, 2010, 2:12:57 PM10/16/10
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:16:27 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:33:16 -0500, Grinder <gri...@no.spam.maam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Please don't mistake my response as a defense of chuckcar's advice, but
>>Windows 98 SE uses C:\Windows\Start Menu\.. I would guess that 95
>>through ME use that same hierarchy.
>

> <Boots up Windows 98 machine> Shit, you're right.
>
> So.. either:
> A. The OP was talking about Windows98, and while chucktard knew this and
> was the only one who realized it, while the rest of us thought the OP
> was talking about Windows 7. chucktard is right,,and we're all idiots.
> B: chucktard was just plain wrong, and it just so happens that a 12 year
> old operating system has the answer he gave, but regardless, he was
> completely wrong, and he's the idiot.
>
> I'm going to go with B, and add that he doesn't have the guts to admit
> he was wrong. Or, he'll try to make some warped sense out of his answer
> and make it look like it somehow applies to the OP's question.
>
> I'm going with the former.

I'll go with hypothesis B. It would seem to run along the same lines as
the infinite number of monkeys statistical theory.

Couldn't find Bob Newhart doing that sketch, so this'll have to do:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD1MW-nyhxg>

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