PC Magazine’s Startup Cop 1.01 - See http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2344-5943130.html?tag=pop
Geez, my first answer to a non-existent post!
You don’t need a program to kill any programs that get into your startup menu. Just go to run…type in msconfig…hit ok. Go to the startup tab on the box that comes up and unclick anything you don’t want to start. Next time you reboot your computer they won’t start.
I’ll save you my entire OP, suffice to say I had memory problems, and found a bunch of programs that were starting up upon startup. The weird thing is, I remember unchecking them before, but they got rechecked somehow. So I want to know if I can delete them from the list, so there is no chance of them somehow getting checked again.
To summerise: They are unchecked, but I don’t want them listed in the list. Can I do that?
Yes. First back up your registry with scanregw. Then run regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Deleting items from the Run, Run-, RunOnce, RunOnceEx, RunServices, RunServices-, and RunServicesOnce keys will remove them from the list in msconfig.
OK, I used the program Duckster suggested, and that removes the offending entries for me, which makes me happy since i would probably fuck something up if I did it myself. Anyways, new problem:
I edited what programs run on startup to a small list of things I need, and one I don’t (AIM) But when I run MemMAX (a cool memory application) it says I have less than 10% of my physicsal memory free. 
It has a feature that lets me optimize my memory usage, and I use it, and it then frees up 60% or so of my memory. My question (if you can’t guess by now): Why is my starting memory so low, and how come it so easily gets raised back up?
If you want to be positive a program does not run, just hide it by changing the extension. Rename program.com to program.com.hide and windows will not find it.
Oh boy…bigger problems arise…now, me memory slowly starts disapearring as I keep my PC on. It goes down even when I don’t open up any new programs. I optimize it to almost 70%, and then see it go down to 69%, 68% etc…It gets down to about 20%. I think something might seriously be wrong here…
After a computer virus crash, I now have a window - C/Program - open everytime I start the machine, how to I stop this.
After the crash, the computer whiz I used moved everything he could save into a folder. I tried moving a few files into another folder and at some point this unwanted window starting appearing.