You might want to look at Startup Cop at 
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2173,00.asp
It will allow you to control the programs that start when Windows starts.

Tony Mayer


Venkat Viswanathan wrote:
> Original post:-
>
> <<<< Hi.. Can someone tell me how to completely remove all traces of laun
> chanywhere app? I have a friend that brought his computer to me for servi
> ce (free of course). Whenever he boots up he gets an error message that l
> aunchanywhere.exe cannot be found. I know it is a bad program and when I 
> searched his drive it was not found, so I'm guessing his anti-virus eithe
> r quarantined or deleted it..now I want to get rid of that error message.
> .how do I do this?..Lots of detail please..thanks       Toby Malchow>>>>
>
> Hi,
>
> it would have helped if we knew the o/s but...
>
> assuming win xp  "run" msconfig/start up . see if there is any entry tick
> ed for " launchanywhere.exe ". if yes, untick, reboot and the error msg. 
> should not appear.
>
> for removing " all traces" .. i can only suggest a "search" and deletion 
> of all files which appear to be associated.( but you seem to have done th
> is search??)
>
> HTH and good luck---Venkat
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