msconfig in win2000

[Beau]

Hi!

I've recently been getting these popup ads when I'm not
even on the internet, from a website called www.endads.com,
which claims that Microsoft installed this popup so you'd
buy their software. I find that extremely hard to believe,
so I set out to find how to determine which programs can or
cannot start up at boot time. In Win98, you could go to
Run and type in "msconfig", and this handy little menu
would allow to let you simply check and uncheck which
programs would launch at start up. Does Windows 2000 have
a feature like this? I typed in msconfig, but Win2000
doesn't recognize it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Beau

 

[Jack Seredyniecki]

You're right MSconfig was not included in Win2000. It comes with XP. You'd
have to edit the system files and the registry manually but be EXTREMELY
careful doing so.

You can use a tool called "regedit" to access your registry directly. Then
the Keys to look at include:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Also, check the Startup Menu for your user account and the the "All Users"
profile. You can usually find it in: (C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Start Menu\Programs).

Another thing to check would be SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI that are located in
your %windir%.