From: "Geo" 

Setting it to manual simply means the system won't start it up. Anything
else can though.

For example, the automatic updates service set to manual, go visit
windowsupdate and presto it starts up. A website can start a service, hows
that for pathetic security?

Geo.

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4581f6ee$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Borland Interbase is listed as Manual in the WinXP Adminisrtrative Tools |
Services
> column Startup Type.
>
> But it starts up when I boot up.
>
> What the heck? Since when does Manual not mean Manual?
>
> How else does stuff get started? Where else to to remove things from
autostart lists?

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