Disabling Windows 98 to automatically run applications

Many applications prefer to make modifications to the system when they are installed, especially to set up their own autorun function so that they can reside in memory for some special purposes. However, this may affect the speed of the system and occupy the system resources that are not sufficient. For this reason, we should use different methods to prohibit their automatic operation:

1) Check the Autoexec.bat file. The application under DOS is used to achieve the purpose of automatic operation. Although this situation is rare in the Windows 98 era, we should check it to prevent "missing fish".

2) Check the Windows 98 "Startup" program group. The "Startup" program group is the most authentic automatic operation mode of Windows 98. Most of the programs that run automatically in Windows 98 are implemented through it. We only need to remove unnecessary programs from it.

3) Check the win.ini file. Some Windows 3.X-based programs may add autorun commands to the "load=program name" or "run=program name" in the [windows] section of the win.ini file, so check that they are also Very necessary.

4) Check the system.ini file. Many applications like to add some auto-running drivers to the system.ini file, which requires us to check the system.ini file in the appropriate way (generally, the autorun program loaded in the system.ini file) They are all implemented by "device=automatically running programs", which are mainly stored in the [386Enh], [mci], [drivers], [drivers32] and other sections of the system.ini file).

5) Check the registry database. Some applications have an automatic run function that seems to be very esoteric. You can't find traces of all the previous items (such as Super Solution & Auto Detector, etc.). What about it? It turns out that Windows 98 has also added a new autorun feature, which is the registry database. We just need to start the Windows 98 Registry Editor, and then expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, Windows, CurrentVersion branches, then we will find two branches, Run and RunServices, which are used to set the startup. When the application is automatically run, the majority of users only need to delete the application that needs to run automatically in the corresponding branch.

How about, after the above steps, are those automatically running applications not "disappeared"?