Vista - Startup Programs - Enable or Disable

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Problem Solved. I was using firefox. Switched back to EI and it works.

wow thanks for the information! this will help me a lot because my sister and i were planning to use vista now that were encountering problems with our current operating system.

You're welcome Pobi, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

Hello Shawn!
I have one startup problem with 3 consecutive annoying pops-ups. Whenever my computer startups, these three dialog boxes pops-ups always asking me if I want to run these files. They all have a check box option to disable them. However, each time I uncheck these boxes, they always reappear every time a new startup commence.

First one: C:\Windows\System32\igfxtray.exe.


Second one: C:\Windows\System32\hkcmd.exe.


Final one: C:\Windows\System32\igfxpers.exe


I know how to disable\/remove them but I think these programs are critical to the
system operation. Can you please help to eliminate these eyesore promts?

Thanks in advance.

Hello Bennys,

Here is a description of each file: igfxtray.exe, hkcmd.exe, and igfxpers.exe
They look like they are all part of you Intel graphic drivers.

You can use Option One - Method Two in this tutorial to create a task to run these at startup instead, then disable them in the normal startup program list.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you Shawn.
Before I go ahead and use the the recommended method you are referring to. I just want to double check if it is the correct one before I start.
METHOD TWO:
Through Task Scheduler which redirects me to see this tutorial "How to Create a Task in Vista Task Scheduler". Is it the correct one? If so, what would be the action for this specific task?

Thanks.

Yep, that is the correct one Bennys. You would just create a new task there for each exe file using this:

Beautifully DONE.
Thank you Brink for your simple step-by-step tutorial with such great patience.
You've saved me all these irritating eyesore pops-ups.

You're welcome Bennys.

Shawn

i was trying to get a game to run correctly and i disabled all the startup items to see if one of them was making it run funny. it wasnt. and now the startup items wont come back on. i click enable all and ok nothing. i click one or two and apply nothing. it doesnt even ask me to restart so it obviously has no intention to listen to me. what should i do?