http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
SysInternals is my favorite tools & utility provider (and their commercial division Winternals, makers of ERD commander). They have such great utilities, thanks to the coding prowess of Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, who are very highly regarded in the Windows security arena.
Sysinternals have a number of great tools like PSTools, AccessEnum, and one of my favorites (for servers), BGInfo.
Autoruns is awesome because it take a comprehensive look at all the possible locations where you might have items that are running during system startup. This includes BHO (browser helper objects), services, registry, and more.
If you have a system that is cluttered with all sorts of junk running at startup, this is a great place to begin your housecleaning. I've used it a lot to help when a system was infected with a piece of malware that kept hijacking my IE homepage.
One VERY nice thing about Autoruns is the fact you can alter other user's startup items in their profiles (required admin permissions apply, of course). This can be handy if you have a user who can't seem to get past logon because of all the extraneous stuff running, but you can log in under a different account that doesn't have all the 'crap' starting up for you - and clean their profile while logged in as you!
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