How to set Norton Ghost 15 to minimize and run with after each reboot

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I erroneously deleted Norton Ghost 15 in startup with Ccleaner ultility. Norton tech support by 'remote' seemed to have fixed this but now aty reboot the Norton screen opens. Then, in Ghost 'options' I select the option for a taskbar icon, and 'apply' but this does not work No taskbar icon. Just teh full open Ghost window. My question is: how do I configure Norton Ghost 15 to run at startup minimized. I am confused about whether it runs in the background performing set backups. Also I wonder if the tech support person re-set Ghost into my startup list the right way because originally it did not open up a Norton window at reboot. I realize the whole thing was caused by my error... I will appreciate any advice.

 

Will

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What version of Windows?

 

If Windows 7 64-Bit, you should have this registry key...

 

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

“Norton Ghost 15.0”=“"C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Ghost\Agent\VProTray.exe"”

 

 

If 32-bit, let me know and I’ll look on another machine in a little while.

Also, it may not hurt to run Fixinstall.bat.

 

 

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Dumb question but maybe it's just the spash screen?

I always turn it off so I have no idea if it normally does that on every boot.

I don't have Ghost installed right now but under advanced options there is a setting to turn it off.

Dave

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I think he killed Ghost from starting in the tray.

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If you have 32-bit Windows. Copy the following and paste it into notepad. Save as fix_ghost_start.reg or whatever. Doubleclick to add to your registry.

 

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

“Norton Ghost 15.0”=“"C:\Program Files\Norton Ghost\Agent\VProTray.exe"”

 

 

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Oh, and you mentioned that Norton remotely fixed it and now the Ghost GUI launches? You will have to find out where they added it and delete it. I suspect they added "VProConsole.exe" or "VProConsole_.exe" instead of "VProTray.exe" to start at boot somewhere.

 

You may want to try Autoruns to see if that entry is in there somewhere. Note that Autoruns is a very powerful tool that will list ALL startup stuff including drivers. Don't be tempted to disable anything that you don't know what it is. You may kill your system!

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I am always amazed at the responses in this forum, swift, thoughtful, interesting, almost always solving the problem. Sorry, I omitted key info. I am using XP Home sp3 with Norton 360 and backing up my writing to one ext drive and my whole system to another ext drive - here at home in my room. I looked at the registry and did not find any Norton item at that location. The Norton tech guy by remote asst. put "Norton Ghost.lnk C:\Program Files\Norton Ghost\Console\VProConsole_.exe" in startup. I downloaded and opened AUTORUNS which looks promising if I can figure out what to do. I am not technically proficient. Self-taught. You know the old adage about a little knowlewdge...  I noticed that my Norton 360 firewall section did not list Ghost now. I don't know enough to proceed with AUTORUM options, I'll study up on it. I'll check back here.

 

W

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He added the wrong exe file to startup. That's why the Ghost GUI is launching at startup. I would just remove it and look at POST 5 above to add the correct entry back into the registry.

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Sorry, maybe I shouldn't be wasting youyr time; I doin'tr know how to insert this into the regristry. I can follow step by step directions but I am not familiar with many things that are basic givens to you. For example, one character in the registry item is a square; is that I typo or something I should know about? Errrg. I'm too old and confused.. sorry.

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Save the attached file to your desktop. Remove the .txt from the end of the filename. Now double click it to add that entry into your registry. This should fix the tray icon issue.

 

 

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Right click on the attachment and select "save target as"

When the box comes up that says "save as", where the file name is shown remove the .txt

On the very bottom box where it says "text document", change it to say "all files"

 

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Thank for that, it did correct the taskbar icon problem. I appreciate your patient generosity. It took me a bit to understand how to do what you cleary described. --  Now I must see if I can figure out hwo to instruct the program to not open the full Ghost window until I want it to!

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You just need to remove the shortcut that was added to the startup folder.

Click the start menu and go to Programs > Startup

Delete the shortcut for Ghost

 

Dave

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Resolved. Many thanbks to you good people.