Some programs will just not go away. The software developers may be trying to make sure you use their application by making it difficult to tame or sometimes applications are just trying to make sure that other programs are not disabling them or taking over their turf. Not uncommonly, competing software applications mess with each other. One example is what happened when I installed several media players on my PC. I installed the music programs Winamp, iTunes, Real Player, and Windows Media Player. The programs would fight for my music file associations (that is, what the file would be opened with). Every time I ran Real Player, it changed all of my music files over to be played in their player by default. The same thing happened when I tried to play my music files in other players. From this experience, I found that a not uncommon occurrence was for a media player application to install a program to be run at system startup that would check and take over (or preserve, as the developers call it) your file associations.
Only after I dug through the options and preferences of each of the applications and changed several options did I discover how to declare an end to the file association war. I could then proclaim Operation Music Freedom a success.
The only way to defeat these sneaky programs is to stop them from the inside. Disabling these programs from starting up is actually quite easy when you know where to look. In the paragraphs that follow, you will learn how to disable two of the most popular and most difficult applications from starting up automatically. Additionally, the methods that will be used can be applied to disable all other sneaky applications from starting up.
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