startup woes

[niharuce]

I am using Windows Vista home premium.
I disable the unwanted programs from startup using msconfig. But each time I use Yahoo messenger or encarta dictionary or IDM they add themselves into the list of startup programs.
Is there any way I can disable them?Plz help

[Aamir_x64]

Launch each prog seprately and then uncheck or disable the ' run on start up'. This should work.

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ Yep. That should be somewhere in the options box of the program.

But, I'll tell you something even better. Install Spybot SnD, and when you start any program which wants to add itself to the startup list, deny it. From then, spybot will automatically deny the request for you.

[Cool Buddy]

if you remove the startup from inside the program itself, then it won't start again. however this is not true for any product by apple, they don't have a disable startup option except quicktime.