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Helllo Brad (and Matthias),
I have been using the tool Matthias recommended and it is indeed a very useful program. It looks like I can stop it from doing the autostart. However, I did not intentionally cause DIAdem to autostart and do not know how this happened. (I must have done it since no one else messes with my laptop.)
A bit of historical info. I originally used a demo disk of ver 10.0 and then used the activation code after purchasing. I started having trouble with auto start and decided to upgrade to version 10.2 hoping ver 10.0 would be deleted and all troubles would be gone. No such luck. I now have both versions and need to remove ver 10.0. However, the control panel and 'add or remove programs' only finds one Nat Inst program (and it doesn't identify version).
Manually starting ver 10.0, generates an error message: "cannot open data store "MydataFinder"
Manually starting ver 10.2 generates an error message: ""data finder cannot start due to an internal error (100) invalid config etc."
In spite of error messages, the programs seem to generally work fine. I am in the process of using the program recommended by Matthias to eliminate startup issues. I am also considering uninstalling and re-installing but am uncertain of which version will be uninstalled since only one program is identified.
After I send this, I'm going to do a restart and see if problem with multiple restarts has been eliminated.
Thanks for all your help.
David F

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