are registery keys the same as start up?

Hi

You will have to expand on what you are trying to find out a little more?

A guess in what your after is if your wondering if the applications that are listed in Startup (ones that boot with your PC) are also in the registry, then the answer is yes, there .exe files to running the main app are in the RUN Hives of the registry, and sample is like this from my windows

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

these locations are when the same applications that boot with your PC will be found, but best advice is not to unless your confident in doing so, edit the registry but use an application to manage/monitor startups and StartupCPL is good