Disabling Launchpad Autostart on Workstations?

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First off, amazing product. Just wanna say…  this beast is amazing.

My question is…     Since I have had to install the software on all our workstations for successful backups, it automatically loads the “Launchpad” application, in addition to the Dashboard. While this is fine - none of my customers using these workstations will ever use them. Again - this is fine. 

The problem I run into is…  My customers are frequently very confused about the Launchpad auto-starting after a reboot. They feel inclined to try to log into it, so I just want to disable it from auto-starting with Windows.  Is this possible, and if so - how do I do it?

If I absolutely need it, I’ll just open it manually.  

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Under the registry folder:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Delete the “Launchpad” key.

I have it done here with Group Policy but you could also make a simple .reg file to delete the key. Group Policy is quick enough to prevent the Launchpad from running even after the reboot from installing the Connector software.

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UR3 for storage server was recently released.  You should have gotten it through windows update.  The updated launchpad now has this option under settings