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When you turn on your computer you get a number of icons on the screen, The Desktop.  There are a number of programs you can start from the Start button,  and there are a number of programs that run automatically on startup.   To give you a bit more certainty about changing how those things happen I list the location of those icons and programs. 

Desktop [the items on the screen] 
These programs are found in Desktop which lies way above c: drive or the a:  drive  

Start menu and sub-menus  
These programs are found in c:\windows\StartMenu\Programs  
There are some quirks, as StartUp appears in directory but does not appear on the Start button when you push it. 
In addition to the items at c:\windows\StartMenu\Programs some standard items also appear at the bottom of the list when you push the Start button. 

The programs that start when the machine is switched on are found in:  
c:\windows\StartMenu\Programs\StartUp