Startup Programs are the Programs that runs automatically on windows logon. Microsoft leaves no way to clean up this list, but here is a way to manage them..

1. Open MSconfig and click on the startup items tab

2. Open Regedit and naviate to

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Sharedtools/MSconfig/startupreg

3. Compare the list of registry keys under startup reg with their counterparts in

msconfig.

4. Delete the keys which are no longer valid.

5. You've cleaned up msconfig.

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