I have no idea, either, don't even know when the duplicate/triplicate entries were created. I have and have read the tutorial. Macrium runs a full backup every Monday, and an updated files backup daily.
I think I will, from time to time, disable extra entries for one program, reboot to test to be sure all is okay.
Thanks for the assistance.
Results so far:
1. Comodo had three entries, disabled #2 & 3, restarted, okay, with #2 and #3 remaining diaabled..
2. DS Clock and EsstentialPIM each had 2; disabled #2 for each one, restarted. Comodo Firewall gave two pop-ups. neither of which would accept a mouse click, and I could not temporarily disable the Firewall,
Was there a connection with disabling startup entries for two programs at the same time? Perhaps, but I am not going to do that again.
3. Rebooted, disabled second entry for DSClock, restarted, entry was restored to enable, DSClock was working; disabled first entry, restarted, DSClock continued to work, first entry remained disabled. Curiously, EssentialPIM was running, but did not pop up on the screen, something that started when I created a new .ini file for the program.
4. Disabled first entry for EassentialPIM, restarted, program worked, disabled entry remained disabled, program did not pop-up.
That was enough disabling/restarting for today.
So far, Autoruns, which I have spent little time with, is quite incomprehensible. Multiple startup entries seem to be scattered in the scan readout, disabled startup entries are shown as enabled, and running Autotunsc creates a window of something which disappears too quickly for me to even have any idea what is there, and the window closes.
I think I see the fallacy: I am using Task Manager to disable startup entries, and Autoruns does not seem to recognize that the disabling has been done. For example, I found all three Comodo entries in one place in Autoruns (with other entiies by themselves in other locations,) where all three entries are shown as enabled, but--as started above- #2 and #3 shown as disabled in Task Manager. I don't know what to do about this type of discrepancy.
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