A dumb question

[Bobb Waller]

Hope this is the right place to ask this. I am disAbled and my PC was
built by one pal, and WindowsXp SP2 was installed by another so I am
pretty clueless about much of the workings of my PC. I have one
question, I have a program (a Game Actually,( that can only run if I
run a Clean Boot and disable ALL background programs. (I have 768 Meg
of memory but still it is not enough to run it without the Clean Boot.
The Program is "The Movies" from Activision, and it runs fine on my
Celeron 2.4 gig in clean boot. Is there a way to set up a User Account
that goes straight into a Clean Boot, or do I need to do it manually
every time I want to play this game? Also when clean booting I get no
Sound. I figure part of it is the Intel Board with it's built in sound
drivers. Intel basically told me I was on my own with this problem,
Activision pretty much told me the same thing.

Any help (other than telling me to but a new Computer or run Linux),
would be appreciated.

Bobb
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have attacks of wackiness when they reach middle age
(resign from the bank go live in a van with a teen-age
mushroom gatherer, and that sort of thing), one factor
has been neglected: When someone reaches middle age,
people he knows begin to get put in charge of things,
and knowing what he knows about the people who are
being put in charge of things scares the heck out
of him! - Calvin Trillian

 

[John Jay Smith]

Bob.. hello....

I suspect what you mean by "clean" boot is that you disable all startup
programs.
By doing that you are probably disabling a startup that enables your sound
card...

I would suggest you use a program to clean up your startup always for every
boot,
and have only the very nessasary things start, like an antivirus for
example...

you can do this with a small free program like this:

http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun.html

Download StartupRun in zip file (strun.zip)
http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun.zip
Download StartupRun with install/uninstall support (strun_setup.exe)
http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun_setup.exe



tell me if this helps

 

[Bobb Waller]

Bob.. hello....

I suspect what you mean by "clean" boot is that you disable all startup
programs.
By doing that you are probably disabling a startup that enables your sound
card...

Yes this is what I meant.

I would suggest you use a program to clean up your startup always for every
boot,
and have only the very nessasary things start, like an antivirus for
example...

you can do this with a small free program like this:

http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun.html

Download StartupRun in zip file (strun.zip)
http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun.zip
Download StartupRun with install/uninstall support (strun_setup.exe)
http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun_setup.exe



tell me if this helps

I will try that now.
Thank you,

Bobb
Last time things were this messed up,
I sent a flood! - G_D

 

[Bobb Waller]

Bob.. hello....

I would suggest you use a program to clean up your startup always for every
boot,
and have only the very nessasary things start, like an antivirus for
example...

you can do this with a small free program like this:

http://nirsoft.net/utils/strun.html

John,
I'm sorry but I have a follow up question. (Told you I was Dumb!)
If I disable startups under one account, say "gamer". Would it be
disabled under all accounts, say my wife's? Or does it disable
startups under all accounts?


Bobb

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[John Jay Smith]

Bobb your question actually is a very good one....you need to build some
self esteem muscle!

I made a screenshot with some explanations that you can see here:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/886/startup5hq.jpg

To change what starts for another user you must log into that others user
account (for example your wife's) run the program and change the items that
say "current user"

the truth is that too many programs enter stuff in the startup and lots of
spyware add stuff
in internet explorer... this problem you have, almost everyone has!

You can disable them with this program without doing any harm.. you can
re-enable them afterwards if you change your mind.


Good Luck!

 

[John Jay Smith]

I made a mistake in the first screenshot.. this one is correct

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6663/startup0wq.jpg

 

[Bobb Waller]

I made a mistake in the first screenshot.. this one is correct

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6663/startup0wq.jpg

Thanks for all the Help.

However it looks like I need to do the Clean Boot the Microsoft way
and not load System.ini or Win.ini to get this program to work.

Even selecting everything that it could. I still get the problem that
Activision says is caused by not enough resources and or memory to run
the program.

Thanks again,

Bobb

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