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How do I stop spybot from running on startup?
I recently upgraded spybot when I upgraded from WinXP to Win7. It installed fine and runs with no problems, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to stop it from running every time I boot up my computer. I don't want it to actively help me, and I don't want it to be interlaced with all of my programs. I run three different anti-malware programs and if I gave them all as much control as spybot seems to want, my context menus would be 30 items long and I would have three different beasts trying to eat away memory and cpu. I want a program that runs a malware check when I tell it to and nothing else. If I can't stop spybot from autostarting then I would much rather delete it completely than deal with this. I looked in settings in the start center but there was nothing about turning off autostart. Does anybody know how to prevent spybot from turning on when I start my computer? You won't just be helping me out, you'll be helping spybot stay on one more computer.
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There should be an option in "Settings".
If not, follow these steps:
First, type 'msconfig' or 'msconfig.exe' in "Run". Msconfig should open. Now click "Startup", find Spybot and uncheck it.
Last edited by imageek; 2013-02-24 at 22:06.
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Thank you so much for that msconfig suggestion. That is helpful beyond just spybot.
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You're welcome!
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