Comments on: Stop the Annoying "Windows Has Blocked Some Startup Programs" Balloon

By: Susie

Susie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:21:05 +0000

When I hover over ‘Run Blocked Program’ it does not come up with ‘System Configuration Utility’ it comes up with ‘Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware’. I can’t seem to disable it. Help? Please?

By: james

james — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:49:16 +0000

thanks dude. really a great help on those annoying popups

By: Corelogik

Corelogik — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:40:02 +0000

Sometimes this is caused by a problem with the app. I recently went through this with MalwareBytes. The application put an entry in the registry with an extra trigger to run a cleanup script at startup. Obviously MB needs admin priv to run so it was getting blocked. Tracking down where this was coming from through Windows defender, removing the registry made it go away.

Sometimes a little judicious research is more helpful than screaming about how F’d up MS is,…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:17:57 +0000

Thanks! I had fixed this problem once before, but couldn’t remember how.

Great site. Thanks again.

By: Grétar

Grétar — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:07:08 +0000

I love you man! This thing was driving me nuts.

By: rae

rae — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:10:24 +0000

The solution to your microsoft vista problem is to burn it. And go get an apple mac.

By: D

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:08:42 +0000

Ok, I’ve read all this, but didn’t get the answer and have more data on this “feature/bug”.

I’ve also been getting this error A LOT. I was under the impression that it was Windows Defender that was causing this, but after a VERY long tech support call to Norton, they SERIOUSLY admonished me to turn that off when running Norton 360. So, I did. and it kept coming back! This time the SAME error appeared in the “System Configuration Utility”. So it was only being “handled” by Defender because it was turned on. The error I’m still getting shows the blocked program is the “Registry Editor”, which gave me quite a concern (I was thinking Virus) and so was HP, the manufacturer of the computer. SO, i researched and they researched and we decided it must be W.32.Brid.A. Well after downloading the “fix” from Symantec. And NOT being able to run the damn thing since it requires Administrator privileges and I wasn’t able to right-click it to run as admin, since it was an old file. I called norton again, 3 hrs this time, all finally ending with me screaming on the phone at the guy because they were now SELLING anti-virus removal services. OMG you wouldn’t believe the rant this guy put me on about these things spreading and every minute I wait it’ll be worse till it pisses off my ISP and they shut off my service and well… then they won’t be able to fix it….. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Only 99.95 for a standard diagnostic…?? Isn’t that what I bought Norton 360 for?

I’m sorry I digress…

So, it’s still here, I followed the link to this site, and I get no such popup for a UAC, it simply runs “whatever” and goes away, till the next time I boot up..

OH, btw…. I followed a logical train of thought and figured out how to run that FixBrid.com program I downloaded from Symantec… I opened a cmd window (as the administrator) then ran that little SH$%. It worked fine, and guess what… after all that hype from Norton, it wasn’t even infected. So, it looks like SOMETHING I installed triggered this Registry Editor to run and since it wasn’t privilege “aware” it’s haunting me. PLEASE PLEASE help me get rid of it. I’m obsessed with it’s removal now.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:32:19 +0000

This advice looks good but I have a program, Memeo AutoBackup, that I want to run at startup…and it does but I still get the blocked program message for AutoBackup Launcher which has already run…to get the AutoBackup program to run. Windows Defender doesn’t give me the option to enable it.

By: Ramon

Ramon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:08:05 +0000

Excellent information. Appreciated. Please keep up the good work.

Ramon.

By: hape

hape — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:01:06 +0000

Main window minimized and use task scheduler to avoid annoying UAC confirmation window in Asus Pc Probe II, i meant .