Personally I would not use msconfig (System Configuration Utility) for THIS purpose. If
you click on the Startup tab, all that you will see are the things that are loaded at
Startup, but NOT necessarily ALL of the processes that are running currently. For that, I
would open the Windows Task Manager (opened by pressing the CTRL ALT and DELETE keys
simultaneously), and then click the Processes tab.
If your "msconfig?" response means that you do not know what that command means, and what
the System Configuration Utility is: Click on your Start button, click RUN, type:
msconfig then click the OK button. The System Configuration Utility will open. The
most often used function of this utility is the Startup tab. When clicked you will see a
list of items that load at Startup. Some things like Real Player and QuickTime do not
really have to load at Startup, because they will open when needed. So instead of wasting
boot time to load them, and having them loaded in memory at all times, one might click to
REMOVE the checkmark in the box to the left of that type of item. One might also find
things on that list of items loading at Startup which could be spyware or malware. (Do
not disable something you are unsure of, although it can be easily enabled again by
putting the checkmark back, if you cannot boot into normal mode, you can do that from Safe
Mode as well. ) Once a checkmark is removed, it does not remove that software from your
system, it just stops it from loading at Startup. After a reboot, you get a dialog box
which says that you have chosen Selective Startup, click to put checkmark in the option in
that box that says do not show this message again.
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