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frankly, i don't know why microsoft "never" incorporated an option to delete unwanted startup's.

however, there are freeware that helps make the task of deleting unwanted entries easier, like CCleaner.

It isn't worth the chance of a screw up in the registry.

I also agree with CCleaner being the program of choice.

Autoruns is also a good program to delete unwanted entries. You can uncheck items to disable them on startup. If there are no problems upon restart, you can then delete the item.

Just search the registry for 'runonce' a couple of times. You'll fund 'run' right next to it, with the items, and you can delete them there.

use ccleaner works grate use it all the time to clean misconfig do not have to touch the registry

use ccleaner works grate no need to edit the registry

Kingsoft PC Doctor has a startup monitor that you click on optimize start-up, and I've used all the others here, but it is sweet and lists the times each process adds to boot-up.
It even explains, in a list view, what each process does, and a percentage of users that either finds it better to remove, or keep.
I get amazing results. I'm not one here to 'sell' a software, as you can tell from my other comments, but that is a good program. You can set it to monitor every start up and give the time, then the option to how much each process is adding, with it's recommendations.

Just to be honest, I have seen the odd person say it's crap in user reviews at beta files and other download sites, but I honestly can't see the slightest thing wrong with it. The other utilities is has for reg cleaning and system clean up are easier than CCleaner, IMO.