customize start up

[john]

How do you customize what programs boot during startup on
xp

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

How do you customize what programs boot during startup on
xp

See "How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560). Once you have found out
what applications you do not want and do not need to start with
Windows, you can delete them from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\services
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\MSConfig\startupfolder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg

 

[T.Sims]

You can use go to start|run and type msconfig and view all
the startup options there. You also have some things in
your startup folder as well. You can also use the
administrator tools | services to remove some of those
services that automatically start up. Those are the
various places that I know of to change my startup
options.

 

[Andy]

-----Original Message-----


See "How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560). Once you have found out
what applications you do not want and do not need to start with
Windows, you can delete them from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\services
Tools\MSConfig\startupreg

i have been to start, run and typed msconfig and the
screen flashes on and then off so you can just see it but
you can't do anything, can someone email me telling me
how to stop that so i can use msconfig please.

 

[steven]

Here are two web sites explaining all the startup progs
and services.check it out some startup programs can be
viruses posing as genuine progs!


http://www.pacs-
portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.php

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

i have been to start, run and typed msconfig and the
screen flashes on and then off so you can just see it but
you can't do anything, can someone email me telling me
how to stop that so i can use msconfig please.

This could be due to a virus infection, so you may want to scan the
system with a good virus scanner at first.