Removing an Unticked Msconfig entry

[Chimaera]

I have a program that removes unneeded msconfig entries which works like this

this is just a snippet of the much larger code

$sRegString &= "|ZoneAlarm Installer|ZooskMessenger|zzz_ImInstaller_IncrediMail"
Global $aRegKeys = StringSplit($sRegString, "|")


$sRegKey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
For $i = 1 To $aRegKeys[0]
    RegRead($sRegKey, $aRegKeys[$i])
    If @error = 0 Then
        RegDelete($sRegKey, $aRegKeys[$i])
        $Deleted &= $aRegKeys[$i] & "|"
        Sleep(100)
    EndIf
Next

Basically i create an array of the unwanted the cycle through the keys and remove them

$Deleted &= $aRegKeys[$i] & "|" is just for a count later on

So this deals with known entries but how do i deal with the ones that have been unchecked previously in msconfig?

Like these.

[iamtheky]

delete the keys here worked for me

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftShared ToolsMSConfigstartupreg

wait...or is the question how to determine if they are unchecked...that seems harder  (however, only my unchecked items show up there, so maybe all keys there are the unchecked items from msconfig?)

Edited April 13, 2015 by boththose

[Chimaera]

doesnt seem to exist on Win 8.1

found on web

 

If you delete them manually via regedit, they're gone for good unless you made a backup first.

If you disabled them using MSConfig, you can find the disabled registry entires at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftShared ToolsMSConfigstartupreg

and disabled startup entries¹ at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftShared ToolsMSConfigstartupfolder.

The subkeys there contain the necessary information to restore a disabled key. You can safely delete the keys found there but you can't restore them via MSConfig afterwards, though.

Note: MSConfig doesn't include items from Group Policy or the Windows 7 Task Scheduler!

Edited April 13, 2015 by Chimaera