LuckMan212 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Hi I have Smartguardian installed but I only run it occasionally (when testing, oc'ing etc or changing hardware to monitor temps) .. for day to day use I do not need or want it running. So I go into msconfig and remove it, but the problem is every time I run it manually, it re-adds itself to the All Users Startup group. Any way to prevent this from happening? :confused: edit: semi-solution has been found, see my post below Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDog69 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Hi I have Smartguardian installed but I only run it occasionally (when testing, oc'ing etc or changing hardware to monitor temps) .. for day to day use I do not need or want it running. So I go into msconfig and remove it, but the problem is every time I run it manually, it re-adds itself to the All Users Startup group. Any way to prevent this from happening? :confused: Right click system-tray icon --> Open --> Options --> Advanced (tab) --> Bottom Checkboxes (joy!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckMan212 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 yeah I saw those--- they don't work!! sloppy programming...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kawasaki 1 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Why not just uninstall? or do you want to have it on there? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkjeThe2nd Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 why does the option to disable smartguard at startup no work, every time the program runs it will eat itself into the hklm/etc/etc/run register, even with the option disabled? now I need unreg it every time using the reg below.... copy this to a txt file and name it disablesmartguardian.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun] "SmartGuardian"=- edit: without the spaces after "Curr" ofcourse... tried to remove em, but can't, the forum inserts it again... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smolt Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 very easy go to start ,run . type in msconfig. hit enter .Go to start up and uncheck ITESmart. and wile your at it turn off anything else you dont wont to come on Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkjeThe2nd Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 very easy go to start ,run . type in msconfig. hit enter .Go to start up and uncheck ITESmart. and wile your at it turn off anything else you dont wont to come on yes that's easy, but you should not have to with the option disabled in the program itself should you? And it only works until you decide to run smartguardian again, then it will reregister itself time and again, option disabled or not. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smolt Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 well if you never wont it go to add and remove programs and remove it but thats not what he ask. he asked how to make it not start up when he turns on the pc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkjeThe2nd Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 I think he asked for a way to prevent the unwanted reregistering when occasionally running SG, so he does want the app, just not every time at bootup but only when started manually... Not that I have that, but suggesting msconfig or uninstall is no good in his case. I suggested the unreg registry as a quicker way to remove the entry from the register, w/o. regedit or msconfig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smolt Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Ok Its all good info Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckMan212 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 so the basic answer is: there is no way to make SG behave properly... you can only do one of: 1) uninstall it completely 2) run msconfig every time after you run it 3) use Darkie's reg trick (still have to do it every time after you quit SG) 4) just let it always run (yuck) none of these is a great option, but I guess #3 is probably the most painless... {{sigh}} why dont these companies ever test their software? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckMan212 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 OK well I sort of combined together some of the other ideas from this thread and made a batch file that is pretty much doing what I want. It launches SG and waits for it to exit, then automatically removes the auto-start entry. I tested it and it works for me. worth a try for those who are annoyed by this arrogant behavior.......... copy and paste this code into notepad and save it as "sg.bat" or whatever.. @echo off echo Leave this window open while SmartGuardian is running. echo After you close SG, this script will automatically echo remove the autorun setting. echo. cd /d "C:Program FilesITESmart Guardian" start /B /WAIT ITESmart.exe echo Removing SG autorun entry... reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun" /v "SmartGuardian" /f *note: remove those 2 spaces in "CurrentVersion" they arent supposed to be there... :angel: EDIT: for those who wish to go 1 step further, if you download the CMDOW utility (available free from http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/ ) and place it in your WINDOWS directory, you can add the following lines to automatically minimize and rename the command shell window to keep it out of the way: @echo off echo Leave this window open while SmartGuardian is running. echo After you close SG, this script will automatically echo remove the autorun setting. cmdow "C:WINDOWSsystem32cmd.exe" /min cmdow "C:WINDOWSsystem32cmd.exe" /ren "SG HELPER" cd /d "C:Program FilesITESmart Guardian" start /B /WAIT ITESmart.exe echo Removing SG autorun entry... reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun" /v "SmartGuardian" /f Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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