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New troubleshooting features in the Windows 7 System Configuration tool

Have you used the Windows 7 System Configuration utility for troubleshooting configuration errors? If so, what's been your experience?

I've often wondered, when it comes to MS Config and the "Hide all Microsoft Services" selection. What defines a "Microsoft Service"? IE, what's stopping malware from inserting itself as a service and saying it's manufacturer is Microsoft Corporation?
I ask this because if I'm in MSConfig there is a good chance I'm in there because I'm fighting malware and I'm trying to stop it from running at startup. To limit the amount of services I see, I always select "hide all Microsoft services" and then look through the list, but I always wonder if it's possible for malware to masquerade as a Microsoft service and thus allude my detection.

The answer is that of course it's possible. But if you're security defenses are up to snuff and you're AV is up-to-date, then you should be good yes? But if something does get thru then it's nothing that a good ol' fashioned REFORMAT can't fix I always say.

Yep, a "format c:" will fix a malware issue, however I enjoy the fight and have not "lost" a fight in many years.

If you have the time checking the symantec website will give step by step registry mods to fix the bugs

Without wishing to promote particular vendors, I have found the most effective malware tool to be: Malwarebytes, a German produced system that has, to date, completely kyboshed any irksome intruders without fail-and at $25 for a perpetual licence,and real-time protection, it has to be the bargain of the decade. malwarebytes.org
Cheers

'nuf said.

Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit.
When I received this Pavilion dv8 laptop, the "Recovery Disk" (D:) was pre-configured at 16 GB. After using the system for a while, Diskeeper reports "insufficient space for defrag".
As I've stated in the original message, that disk CANNOT be modified in any normal manner. I don't even believe (if I still had a copy) that Partition Magic would be allowed to Expand that disk with the space I created from the C: drive. There is NO REFERENCE to making changes to that drive.
I KNOW that something can be done but in this new OS, the help functions aren't as straight-forward as was XP Pro.
When I open Commputer to view the system disks, that drive shows the capacity in a RED line.
None of the suggestions submitted so far have any effect on the disk, which has already been cleaned and recycle bin emptied.

A purchased program installed an 'updated' version on my machine, stating it was free, with the proviso that I purchase some service from a supplied list.

Not wanting it to constantly appear on my desktop at boot-up, yet wanting to consider it, I placed a hash mark in front of the exe file in Explorer.

That did not stop it, but unchecking it in Sys config did the trick.
Dante