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@DoctorOhh: CC does start on boot, but it isn't the CC you normally see.
It starts on boot for 2 reasons:
1) to set the auto-connect and auto-news-delete timers. There is no way to know whether or not to set them except by starting and looking. The part of CC that starts is tiny, has no UI, and dies as soon as the timers are set.
2) to fill in any book widgets. This happens only if there are widgets on the desktop. Again, it is a tiny part of CC, and it dies as soon as the widgets have been filled in.
On all my devices, CC leaves no trace in memory after it finishes the boot processes. In addition, when Android needs memory it automatically unloads applications that haven't run for a while. CC will get flushed that way even if it is started normally. For these reasons the OP's claim that it "will always live in memory" is almost certainly wrong. And here I must apologize. The addition of the "angry" icon annoyed me and colored my response.