Disabling a service in start-up

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The other day I was advised to do the followin
Method 2: (Disable the service from startup
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1. Click Start -> Run
2. Type MSCONFIG and press Enter
3. Click the Startup tab
4. Clear the checkboxes for "hpcmpmgr.exe."
5. Click OK
6. Restart the system.
However upon restart got a message from System Configuration Utility that I had ot put the system back in Normal and take it out of diagnostic or selective mode....and then when I did this the program is still there on shut down. Does anyone know how I can remove this service from start-up?
 
ellenh said in news:[email protected]:
The other day I was advised to do the following
Method 2: (Disable the service from startup)
=========
1. Click Start -> Run.
2. Type MSCONFIG and press Enter.
3. Click the Startup tab.
4. Clear the checkboxes for "hpcmpmgr.exe."
5. Click OK.
6. Restart the system.
However upon restart got a message from System Configuration
Utility that I had ot put the system back in Normal and take it out
of diagnostic or selective mode....and then when I did this the
program is still there on shut down. Does anyone know how I can
remove this service from start-up?
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The prompt you saw at after step 6 was a *warning*, not a command, to
notify you that you used msconfig to alter the system. You don't do
anything but close that dialog. If you don't want to keep seeing that
dialog on bootup, then check the box that says not to show it anymore.

If hpcmpmgr.exe was really an NT service, you could configure it using
services.msc to stop it and to change from automatic load to manual or
disabled. If instead this program is really a background application
loaded by a Run registry key then you could just delete that key to load
that program (but you'll probably want to export the key to ensure you
can get it back correctly if you find you need it).

I've used this for several programs that want to add a Run key but
really don't need to run at Windows startup. For example, I unchecked
"qttask" which is some QuickTime fluff. After doing that, the next
reboot would popup a warning about the modification, but a checkbox let
me ignore it (so I would not see the same prompt on every subsequent
boot). This is only needed if the program itself doesn't give you the
option to NOT load on startup, or enabling that option really doesn't
get rid of its Run key entry (it still runs but then doesn't load
anything else, so it is just fluff and shouldn't run at all).
 
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