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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Dave on December 23, 2001, 01:56:36 AM

Title: win 2k ?
Post by: Dave on December 23, 2001, 01:56:36 AM

Hey,I\'m new to 2000pro.Where can I find the section that allows me to remove items at start up?

I tried to run msconfig,but it tells me it can\'t find it.

Thanks for any help.

Title: win 2k ?
Post by: wdygfy1 on December 23, 2001, 02:13:54 AM

to the best of my knowledge you can\'t do it from inside windows 2000 as it comes but I there is a version of msconfig ripped from windows xp that works for 2k at the downloads section of this site.  I\'m using it

Title: win 2k ?
Post by: Dave on December 23, 2001, 03:05:22 AM

Hey,thanks wdygfy1.This seems to be a great program.

If I only knew how to delete one of  the entries in the boot.ini.

When I installed 2000pro with ME for some reason at boot up
It shows
WINDOWS 2000 PRO  
WINDOWS 2000 PRO
WINDOWS        

The second listing for 2000pro is no good.

Title: win 2k ?
Post by: Josetann on December 23, 2001, 03:41:59 AM

Right-click the boot.ini file (it\'s in the root of c:, you will probably need to be able to view hidden and system files to see it) and click properties.  Uncheck the read-only attribute.  Now double-click the file and edit that part out.  You can re-check the read-only attribute if you want to now.

Title: win 2k ?
Post by: Dave on December 23, 2001, 01:03:35 PM

Thanks josetann.That fixed it.