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Title: Msconfig won't run
Post by: Guest_Sam on October 25, 2003, 04:32:27 PM

Help-

When I try to run Msconfig or Task manager (in XP) the program pops up on the screen and then dissapears in about 1 second.  What is going on?  Any advice is good advice

Thanks

Title: Msconfig won't run
Post by: Guest on October 26, 2003, 01:35:55 PM

[quote name=\'Guest_Sam\' date=\'Oct 25 2003, 03:32 PM\']Help-

When I try to run Msconfig or Task manager (in XP) the program pops up on the screen and then dissapears in about 1 second.  What is going on?  Any advice is good advice

Thanks[/quote]
 hi
try to run the msconfig in the safe  mode and disable all the startup program
try this out ...............this should work

Title: Msconfig won't run
Post by: Guest_guest on December 25, 2003, 03:14:29 AM

Hi,
    I have exactly the same problem with ctl+alt+delete.

Title: Msconfig won't run
Post by: anonymous on January 08, 2004, 10:00:30 AM

You could have a trojan horse.  Smart trojans shut down msconfig so that you cant stop it from loading when windows starts.
Really smart trojans stop msconfig, notepad, and regedit from running.
You have to be really tricky to get rid of these pesky trojans.

Title: Msconfig won't run
Post by: squarehead on January 11, 2004, 05:42:01 PM

sounds like a trojan to me -- go to www.lavasoftusa.com and grab yourself a copy of Ad-Aware.

Title: Msconfig won't run
Post by: agent32124 on November 02, 2005, 10:21:55 AM

my MSCONFIG failed and i finally figured out that a malicious program had stuck a file called "boot" in system....here is the path C:\boot. .....you can open it with "notepad"...its a "prevent run" file....it prevents msconfig from running and plays hell with trying to restore your system....can't be found by virus detection either...DELETE IT.....this will work!