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Old April 25th, 2004, 04:56 PM
Becky
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Default Word 10 autolaunch problem

Help! Word keeps starting when I reboot on my XP
system. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to
stop it.

Any ideas? Thanks!
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Old April 25th, 2004, 05:25 PM
Graham Mayor
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Becky wrote:
Help! Word keeps starting when I reboot on my XP
system. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to
stop it.

Any ideas? Thanks!


Do you have winword in your Windows startup folder?
Start All programs startup

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




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Old April 25th, 2004, 05:57 PM
Becky
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Default Word 10 autolaunch problem


-----Original Message-----
Becky wrote:
Help! Word keeps starting when I reboot on my XP
system. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to
stop it.

Any ideas? Thanks!


Do you have winword in your Windows startup folder?
Start All programs startup

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word



No...It is not there


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Old April 25th, 2004, 07:50 PM
Jay Freedman
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Default Word 10 autolaunch problem

"Becky" wrote:
Becky wrote:
Help! Word keeps starting when I reboot on my XP
system. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to
stop it.

Any ideas? Thanks!


Do you have winword in your Windows startup folder?
Start All programs startup

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word



No...It is not there


In the Start menu, click Run. Enter the command

msconfig

and click OK to start the msconfig program

On the General tab, click Selective Startup.
On the Startup tab, find "winword" in the Startup Item column and
uncheck it.
Click OK. You'll be prompted to restart your system, so do it. Word
shouldn't come up any more.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
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Old April 25th, 2004, 09:05 PM
Becky
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Default Word 10 autolaunch problem


-----Original Message-----
"Becky" wrote:
Becky wrote:
Help! Word keeps starting when I reboot on my XP
system. For the life of me, I can't figure out how

to
stop it.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Do you have winword in your Windows startup folder?
Start All programs startup

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word



No...It is not there


In the Start menu, click Run. Enter the command

msconfig

and click OK to start the msconfig program

On the General tab, click Selective Startup.
On the Startup tab, find "winword" in the Startup Item

column and
uncheck it.
Click OK. You'll be prompted to restart your system, so

do it. Word
shouldn't come up any more.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
.

Thanks, but I had already tried msconfig. It's not in
there.
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Old April 26th, 2004, 01:01 AM
Jay Freedman
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Default Word 10 autolaunch problem

OK, instead of hacking at this piecemeal, let's go through the whole
list of how programs can start automatically at boot time.

1. In C:\Documents and Settings, you will find a folder for each logon
identity, plus ones for Administrator, All Users, and Default User.
Under each of those folders you may see the path ...\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup. Any one of those may contain a shortcut to
Winword.exe or to a Word document.

2. In the registry, you may find the path to Winword.exe or a document
listed as an entry under the keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run

3. Winword.exe may be listed in the file autoexec.bat in the C:\
folder. Windows XP doesn't need an autoexec.bat at all; mine exists
but is empty.

4. Conceivably, something (a program or batch file) in one of those
places could start Word. This is unlikely but possible.

Under most conditions I would expect msconfig to list any of these,
but I suppose it could miss something, such as autoexec.

"Becky" wrote:
-----Original Message-----
"Becky" wrote:
Becky wrote:
Help! Word keeps starting when I reboot on my XP
system. For the life of me, I can't figure out how

to
stop it.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Do you have winword in your Windows startup folder?
Start All programs startup

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word



No...It is not there


In the Start menu, click Run. Enter the command

msconfig

and click OK to start the msconfig program

On the General tab, click Selective Startup.
On the Startup tab, find "winword" in the Startup Item

column and
uncheck it.
Click OK. You'll be prompted to restart your system, so

do it. Word
shouldn't come up any more.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
.

Thanks, but I had already tried msconfig. It's not in
there.



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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
 




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