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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Anonymous on May 13, 2002, 09:34:59 AM

Title: Can anyone help me with a windows 2000 question?
Post by: Anonymous on May 13, 2002, 09:34:59 AM

It has come to my attention that windows 2000 does not have msconfig. I am having problems with unwanted programs that are loading at startup. How can I modify and or change the list of programs that are qued at startup?

Title: Can anyone help me with a windows 2000 question?
Post by: The_Flames on May 13, 2002, 09:46:23 AM

have a look here The Download section

Title: Can anyone help me with a windows 2000 question?
Post by: omni871 on May 13, 2002, 10:55:55 AM

Or you could go into the registry under HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftCurrentVersionRun and see what is being started up and remove it if you want.  But, that is going into the registry and if you are not comfortable with that....then do it the other way.

Title: Can anyone help me with a windows 2000 question?
Post by: m00dy on May 21, 2002, 07:03:47 PM

You can copy the following in bold to notepad and save it as a .BAT file, then run it to see what\'s in that KEY. This can be modified to search any key (like Add/Remove Programs)

REM Based on batch file from http://www.fpschultze.de (http://\"http://www.fpschultze.de\")
@Echo Off
Start /Wait Regedit /E %TEMP%.Tmp HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun
    Find \".\" /I < %TEMP%.Tmp | Find /V \"Windows Registry Editor\" > C:%COMPUTERNAME%.TXT
REM    Del %TEMP%.Tmp
    NOTEPAD C:%COMPUTERNAME%.TXT
REM    DEL C:%COMPUTERNAME%.TXT

I REMarked the last couple of lines just so nobody gets paranoid about the DEL command. It\'s pretty obvious what they do, though.

m00dy