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Title: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by Norman on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 10:13am

I use Ghost occasionally. I don;t need it to load everytime I start Windows. Is there a way to disable this

thanks
Norman

Title: Re: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by RAD_2 on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 10:39am

I think you can run "msconfig" from a command line and choose which programs are enabled or disabled at startup.

One of my main complaints about symantec products is that they assume they can take over your computer. I wish they would give us CLEARLY STATED OPTIONS at installation.

Title: Re: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by Norman on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 12:12pm

I agree.

Your suggestion helped. I can turn off the automatic loading of Ghost services. However, GhostTray.exe still launches and now gives an error that the services have not started. Any tips on how to stop this from loading automatically?

Title: Re: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by Ghost4me on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 3:29pm

wrote on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 12:12pm:

Any tips on how to stop this from loading automatically?

A nice free utility is the Startup Control Panel program that allows you to easily see what is loaded and run at startup. You can temporarily (or permanently) disable the Ghost tray icon application.

http://www.mlin.net/

Title: Re: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by Pleonasm on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 3:49pm

Also consider using the free Sysinternals’ utility AutoRuns, which is excellent.

Title: Re: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by Brian on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 4:31pm

Norman,

With Ghost 9 I used to disable GhostTray.exe in msconfig. This stops the icon showing in the system tray.

Title: Re: How to stop Ghost loading at Windows Startup
Post by tallin on Jul 1^st, 2007 at 12:58am

wrote on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 10:13am:

I use Ghost occasionally. I don;t need it to load everytime I start Windows. Is there a way to disable this

thanks
Norman

I suggest opening Ghost/options/tray icon/uncheck "show system tray icon".
Just out of interest, if you disable Ghost you will not have an up to date backup if your HD fails? That would worry me! :o