Windows 10: Win10 doesn't save my display prefs

So every time I reboot, the "language" icon is in the lower right, even though I've repeatedly told it not to display.

And there pretty much always seems to be programs that enable themselves at startup, even though I keep disabling them. I think programs do this after being updated, but is there any way to stop it, specially since Win10 forces updates on you?

I really don't want iTunes, and DropBox and 2 antivirus programs starting everytime I reboot

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>.pref files

Hi all,

I am using Vegas pro 14 on a windows10 pro machine. works fine with my contour shuttle which uses .pref files to set which buttons do what task.

I also use Videopad for quick and dirty editing but it simply does not recognise/use the .pref file.

Contour themselves cannot understand this so, can anyone tell me what language the .pref files are in on a windows machine so I can try and edit it myself?

I believe that the original .pref files were mac OSX 10 things which of course will be no use on a windows machine. (I have a mac I can use...but don't like it!).

cheers all

Tim

 

>.pref files

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Best regards,

Carlos

 

Hi, I quite agree it is really annoying when programs are so designed as to add themselves to startup without asking you.

Mike Lin's ancient Startup Monitor still works, and is really tiny. It detects such attempts and prompts you so you can decide to accept or not.

Sysinternals Autoruns offers the most comprehensive view of startups, including search- of course there are many other programs that do, so you can disable startups you don't want from their GUI, if supported, or by that means. Then Startup Monitor should trap any attempt to add startups thereafter.