From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:45:06 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>It turns out that W2K has a "feature" not shared by any other MS O/S
>
>-- it launches any program in any subkey of (at least) six keys:
>HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
>HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

I don't think the above is true. I vaguely recall W95 and NT4 having those
registry keys (except maybe the first one). XP definitely has them.


>This would simply be a curiosity except that I can't find a single
>third party utility (other than the Silent Runners script) that
>identifies programs located in such subkeys.

I don't think this is true either. I believe they are exposed by (at least)
TweakUI and I know I've seen other utilities report them.

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