It's not that simple...I have this popup too, on a new system nuked to bare
hard drive and then installed apps. It's not in any Startup group, and the
various programs I've tried that show me the startup programs don't have it
listed. I'd be happy to turn it off, if I could find it. Or uninstall the
software that put it there in the first place...
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "Nunya Beeswax" <klickdis@gmai.com> wrote
>> macrovision update service keeps getting blocked at start up, any way to
>> fix?????
>
> Any program running at startup that requests admin privileges will be
> blocked each time at startup until you give permission for it. There are
> some options. First is to question why it has to run each time at
> startup. Seems like a waste of resources. I update programs periodically
> and don't let them do it automatically except for the AV program. So one
> option is to remove it from running at startup. Another option is to
> check with the program author for a version that doesn't need admin
> privileges. There's no reason why an autoupdater should need admin
> privileges.
>
> Here is another option, run it as a scheduled task.
> http://blog.gerke-preussner.de/index...-in-Vista.html
>
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> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]