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By: sinasi

sinasi — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:26:54 +0000

Çok teşekkürler.

By: Klint

Klint — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:39:05 +0000

Cont. from #90
Tonight I was finally able to remove the AbsoluteStartup icon in the Control panel. I knew where the .cpl icons were but I didn’t know which one was it.

Using TweakUI I was able to figure it out. And remove it. For anyone that encounters the problem I did. The file to delete is ASap.cpl
located in the c:\windows\system directory. I forgot if it is a hidden file so if you don’t see it than go under View and file options to view hidden files.

And so ends that annoyance. :)

By: Max

Max — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:06:48 +0000

The program ruined all startup entries already present in my system. (Italian windows XP) Please DO NOT INTALL IT !!! (unless you want to reinstall all the application that have a automatic start up)

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:47:44 +0000

I’ve uninstalled it – it seemed like a great program to begin with but the thought of removing all start-up apps like that is too much; imagine trying to solve it. Not worth it.

By: Klint

Klint — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:12:19 +0000

Operating System: Win98SE
Was one of those that had part of the start-up wiped. I un-installed the software and thankfully the help provided in comment #73 helped get me back where I was.

Downside is I know / despite the program being gone.. have the blue diamond “Absolute Startup” icon in my Control Panel. How do I remove it? I’ve tried searching for the .cpl file, and other things but it hasn’t worked/ maybe I’m doing something wrong in my attempt to remove it.

By: Shimon

Shimon — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:53:51 +0000

To our wonderful team of GoTD:
I am the poster of comment #8. It’s quite simple. Everything in my computer is quite standard, except that I had a sub-folder under my C:\Documents and Settings\\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, both for my own name and for . This caused the program to have an error reading my startup folder, and apparently somehow that also caused it to be unable to read the registry. Therefore, whenever I clicked a left menu item, such as “Run”, “RunOnce”, “Startup”, “Autoexec”, it showed me an error message and an empty list. Apparently it does not have any problem writing the empty list, so it cleared my startup folders and the Run section of the registry. It seems a straightforward bug. Go to the vendor and I’m sure they can repeat it easily.

By: Site Seer

Site Seer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:15:07 +0000

Well I haven’t run Win 98 in years and Absolute Startup Manager sure didn’t “work fine” on my XP machine, or on my other system running 2000. It’s glitchy and buggy. Can’t test it on a Win 98 system as the only one still running that belongs to someone else in the house.

I doubt everyone who has had problems with this program is still running 98SE, and it seems strange that you are posting that it “works fine from Windows 200 and Windows XP machines”, etc., etc., at various places all over the site. MSCONFIG works better, and far more reliably.

By: BillW50

BillW50 — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:40:52 +0000

Works fine from Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines. Toasted my Windows 98SE Starup. But thanks to TK (73), SCANREG /RESTORE restored everything.

Plus those that think MSCONFIG is just as good, you have to be kidding? As MSCONFIG doesn’t come close to this at all. Thanks again for the great program. – BillW50

By: FYI

FYI — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:13:36 +0000

For all of you folks wanting to stop Quicktime from starting up automatically: Quicktime has a setting to stop this behavior! Right-click on the QT icon on the bottom right of your taskbar and go to Preferences. It’s a quick and painless fix.

Good Luck!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:03:11 +0000

During installation I received an error message saying that the program couldn’t open file AutorunsDisabled, at which time it proceeded to delete everything in my startup folder.