CCleaner Disable and Enable Startup Programs

Question

I am working on a program for work which includes a startup manager. I have it to where the user can delete startup entries for programs, but it cannot disable startup entries.

With the CCleaner program a user has the ability to enable or disable. Can anyone give insight on how they are able to accomplish that? I have looked around in the registry but I don't see any differences to the keys when the startup is enable or disabled. Is this set in another location?

Edit: I used RegFromApp to monitor the registry while enabling and disabling startup on numerous programs. Turns out it actually creates keys if they don't already exist.

Jason Bristol · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-09T03:54:04.613

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As I am not the developer of CCleaner I can't give you exact details on how they might manage this, but in general entries under:

32bit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MsConfig

64bit :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MsConfig

will house "disabled" startup entries.

edited Jul 09 '13 at 03:54

answered Jul 08 '13 at 16:18

Jason Bristol

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stderr · Answer 2 · 2013-07-11T01:24:55.567

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I believe in two possibilities:

Disabled startup entries are stored in a configuration file (. ini).
In the registry editor these values are stored in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MsConfig\startupreg.

edited Jul 11 '13 at 01:24

answered Jul 08 '13 at 16:22

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