And why why why did MS give developers 32 ways of starting up a program from boot?
I prefer the question:
why why why did they build a system that allows so many cryptic and round-the-back ways of doing/allowing it in the first place? The fact that a program a user is running has permission to access areas like the registry & sys-services without 'authorization' is an appalling design flaw. Anything like this should only be allowed to insert it into the users 'startup' folder, unless authorized.
Which is kind of what u said too, just thought id elaborate :)