Location on disk of msconfig's startup tab

[Vance Roos]

Is there somewhere in Win XP wher I can find a file (or more than
one) which is where the data in msconfig's startup tab comes from?

 

[Ken Blake]

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Is there somewhere in Win XP wher I can find a file (or more than
one) which is where the data in msconfig's startup tab comes

from?


Programs can start automatically in several places in the
registry as well as in the startup folder. The advantage of using
MSconfig is that it gathers all of this and puts it in a single
place for you. Besides being much safer than editing the registry
directly, it's much more convenient to use MSconfig.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

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Programs can start automatically in several places in the
registry as well as in the startup folder. The advantage of using
MSconfig is that it gathers all of this and puts it in a single
place for you. Besides being much safer than editing the registry
directly, it's much more convenient to use MSconfig.

Unless you want to change something from 'all users' to 'HKLM_run', or
delete something permanently, in which case startupcpl from
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
is much nicer than MSCONFIG, and works on Win2k Pro as well.
(The price is right too)

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is there somewhere in Win XP wher I can find a file (or more than
one) which is where the data in msconfig's startup tab comes from?

Location in that tab tells you
Two are in the registry:
HKCU at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKLM at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

The others are folders of shortcuts - for Startup, r-click the Start
Button, take Open and in the window double click Programs then Startup
For Common Startup, the same but Open All Users instead of the simple
Open