22. Remove Startup Items

Force remove items from Task Manager Startup list that cannot be removed in the GUI; such as Microsoft OneDrive which will leave a setup startup service on removal.

Force remove startup items

Delete entries that should not appear (or can’t be removed from startup by other means). All locations must be checked.

Force remove local machine startupapproved startup items

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartupApproved\Run

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2021-02-19 Reference

Force remove user startupapproved startup items

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartupApproved\Run

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2021-02-19 Reference

Force remove user currentversion run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2022-01-09 Reference

Force remove local machine currentversion run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2022-01-09 Reference

Force remove user wow6432node currentversion run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2022-01-09 Reference

Force remove local machine wow6432node currentversion run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2022-01-09 Reference

Force remove local machine currentversion startup approved

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartupApproved\Run32

ANY

BINARY

DELETE

Updated: 2022-01-09 Reference