how to FORCE a program to NOT run on startup

[roid450]

I can;t find an answer for this and the most obvious things to do, I have already done.

The programs I Rockstar Games Social Club, No matter what I do or how many times I disable it from Msconfig or delete the startup registry, it's always there on boot and makes my PC lag on boot because of it. I want to FORCE it to not run on boot, but I can't figure out how. AFAIK that program is a MUST for starting the GTA4 exe

 

[Sam25]

I found a couple of posts here which can help in stopping Rockstar Games Social Club to run at start-up. (Be sure to read through the posts though).

 

[RebateMonger]

Autoruns (by Microsoft's System Internals) is probably preferable to MSConfig, which is getting pretty old.. You get much better control of startups.

You can run it immediately by using Sysinternal's Live service.

 

[Ausm]

That's sounds more like a virus or malware then a normal program. Anyway one way around it is to create a new user and see if that APP fires up when you do this. I have done this many times when I was to lazy to reinstall a partially pooched OS or to cure an annoying problem such as this with great success.

 

[techmanc]

I have seen some malware recreate the problem on bootup usually by still having an obscure file(s) on your system and registry entry's that reinstall the problem so I think best way for you is to get use all these prior posts to get the files and registry items found and removed.