Is there anywhere but CurrentServices\Run and Startup Menu where a program can start at boot?

[Felecha]

The title says it - if a program starts automatically when XP boots, could that come from anywhere but CurrentServices\Run or Startup Menu? Not a Service, I mean an application in a window.

 

[Drakkon]

type in "msconfig" into the "run" box...go to the startup tab...there you can see programs that are running on startup too

 

[Felecha]

Already did those, but no luck. Windows Media Player starting up automatically every time at boot. Those are the two places I know of to look.

 

[Felecha]

Spyware? Virus? I've seen those suggested on websites. If they don't use Startup menu or CurrentVersion\Run, how would they do it?

 

[Felecha]

And I can't find any option in WMP that sets it. If it did, again I would expect it to use the registry

 

[Felecha]

I found a suggestion that it would be in Services, which can be set to start Automatic, but I'm not aware of any Windows Service associated with WMP. Maybe a virus created a Service that does it??? I work with Services all the time at my job, so I'm skeptical of this idea but what the heck

 

[imported_FishTaco]

A scheduled task can be set to run on system startup.