Thanks for your comments youness_teimoury, I found out how to stop glassfish booting on start up on windows 7 by doing the following:
Type msconfig - this brings up the System Configuration screen
Select Startup tab
Untick Java(TM).........
Close.
Hope this helps someone else,
Cheers all Gareth
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