Vista - Startup Programs - Enable or Disable

Hello KindaLost, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It sounds like you did this through msconfig, so go ahead and check the ones you want back, and restart the computer to see if they startup again. If not, then under the General tab in msconfig, select (dot) "Normal Startup", click OK, and restart the computer.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

i already tryed those things before i posted that question. when i click the normal boot and hit apply it unchecks it and goes back to what it was before with no boot items. and if i click them back on one by one it also resets them when i hit apply or ok. i cant figure out why its doing that.

See if this may work:

1. Check the startup items, or click on Enable All button.
2. Click on Boot, tab check the Make all boot settings permanent box.
3. Now click on OK to apply.

nope it still just resets them right after i hit ok or hit apply... also looking at it through windows defender doesnt show them on the list at all...

OK! heres what it was, i figured it out. one of the many things that wernt coming back on was my anti virus stuff. it would run in the back ground and pop up if i did certain things but for the most part it was doing nothing. BUT one thing it was doing was stopping those registry keys from being entered and not asking me. so when i manualy added some stuff to the Start folder i added my anti virus too. and i restarted. then for some reason i tryed to goto msconfig and enable them all again. when i did i got like 50 prompts from my anti virus asking me if it was ok to read those start up items. click yes 50 times, promblem solved!

KindaLost,

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out. What AV program was it? Was the defense type feature part of the AV program or some other one?

its bit defender game safe. and yeah that is part of the bit defender deal. its kind of a weird AV program. if i exit the program and try to turn it off it just goes away from the screen and task bar but it still is on i just cant see it.

Yeah, usually a program like that will have a service running that requires it to also be stopped, or restart the computer after exiting the program to have it stopped.

I'm going through the same headaches on my new Vista64 PC as I had on my Vista 32 bit PC. Namely, if I write a lot of files to my external drive, like by doing a backup, svchost comes right up afterwards and wants to try to open every single file on the drive. The drive accesses for like 20 minutes for no purpose.

I got this to quiet on my 32 bit system and printed out all my services settings. I set the new machine services the same and went through scheduled tasks turning off CrawlStartPages, Customer Experience data collection tasks, as I did on the 32 bit PC. So far it won't settle down though. I'm wondering if it has something to do with Lan file shadowing or local file caching. I can't seem to find the place to turn that off as I did on the 32 bit system

edit: I hope If found it this time. I use locate32 for file search. It has a setting to "monitor file system changes." I know there's an API where the OS notifies you if a folder's contents changes. I guess what was happening is the OS can notify of a few files renamed, deleted, whatever, and you don't notice it. But when you move or copy 1000 files, the notifications and collecting the data for them are going to peg the HD LED.

Anyway I changed locate32 settings to disable updating of file system changes and I'm hoping that will make for quiet hard drives!!

Thing is there were so many hidden tasks in Vista doing similar scans I figured there had to be yet another one that I didn't find yet!!

If anybody else is complaining "svchost.exe" is hogging my HD, check and see if you use locate32 to search!!

Hi guys,

This baloon is so annoying. It keeps on popping and says "Windows blocked startup programs" and when I click what program it is, it's the REGISTRY EDITOR. I don't know what to do. I already did research on how to disable that and stuff but still doesnt work.