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Does Windows 2000 have a msconfig.exe?

 
 
Ant
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      30th Oct 2003
I am surprise Windows 2000 doesn't have one. Does Windows have a program
to check the startup programs (not services) without using the Registry
editor? Or do I have to download and install a program?

Thank you in advance.
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      30th Oct 2003
Download MSCONFIG from this web site:

http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Msconfig.htm

Works wonderfully.

Cody
"Ant" wrote

> I am surprise Windows 2000 doesn't have one. Does Windows have a program
> to check the startup programs (not services) without using the Registry
> editor? Or do I have to download and install a program?
>
> Thank you in advance.
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John Thomas Smith
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      30th Oct 2003
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ant <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I am surprise Windows 2000 doesn't have one. Does Windows have a program
>to check the startup programs (not services) without using the Registry
>editor? Or do I have to download and install a program?


Win98 and WinXp have MSCONFIG, but Win2k does not... be VERY
CAREFUL what you disable, or your computer may not run at all
This program does that http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
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Phillip Pi
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      30th Oct 2003
On 10/30/2003 8:37 AM PT, John Thomas Smith wrote:


> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ant <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I am surprise Windows 2000 doesn't have one. Does Windows have a program
>>to check the startup programs (not services) without using the Registry
>>editor? Or do I have to download and install a program?

>
>
> Win98 and WinXp have MSCONFIG, but Win2k does not... be VERY
> CAREFUL what you disable, or your computer may not run at all
> This program does that http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml


Thanks! I will use the EXE file version.
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Bruce Chambers
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      31st Oct 2003
Greetings --

MSConfig is/was a Win98/Me utility, brought back in WinXP, which
is also targeted at the home consumer market. There is no equivalent
utility included with WinNT/Win2K.

In most cases, one need only open the offending program and
deselect the option to "display icon in the system tray" or to "start
when Windows starts."

To view the list of your start up programs, look in the
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up and
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up
folders, and in the system registry, primarily in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys. These can
also be viewed, if I remember correctly, by right-clicking My
Computer, selecting "Manage" and expanding System Tools-- System
Information -- Software Environment -- Startup Programs. To prevent
any of them from starting at login, you'll have to delete shortcuts
from the startup folder(s) and/or edit the registry. I should point
out that, in order to make such system modifications requires one to
have administrative privileges to the machine in question. I should
also point out that one should not even consider editing the registry
unless he is fully confident that he knows exactly what is going to
happen as a result of each and every change.


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"Ant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am surprise Windows 2000 doesn't have one. Does Windows have a

program
> to check the startup programs (not services) without using the

Registry
> editor? Or do I have to download and install a program?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> --
> "An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing in

an
> orchard or garden." --Francis Bacon
> /\___/\
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