Weird Blank Startup Items?? I can help!

Lemme start from the beginning.

First of all, your Startup menu is completely different from your Start menu. It contains any programs or items that start up when you, well, start your computer up. To view it, you go to Start > Run, type in msconfig, then go to the Startup tab.

So my dad and I were performing maintenance on his computer, and we found several lines in our Startup that had no text in the Startup Item OR Command columns. What I found out was that these were registry errors. They don't harm the computer majorly, as they have no command, but you can still clean them up easily.

First of all, you're going to want to run Registry Editor by going to your Run dialog again and typing regedit. Depending on what user the Startup item once was, you will have to go to either HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Once in either of these, go to Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run. Here you might see an entry with -- you guessed it -- no value. You can safely just delete this value. (If you don't see one there, go to another HKEY_) Restart your computer and you're done.