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slow boot - startup controls

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by richardhurn

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win 98 had a great utility "windiag" for selecting which startup items you wanted to launch.

Cannot find such control tool in win 2000
& hoping to avoid using regedit.

Anyone know how to control startup items?
also hope don't have to use mccsnap-in manager ( Arghhhh!)

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by xmutant5

ok first i use msconfig which i htink is better in my opinon cause u can take it and copy it from xp or 98se and copy it to the win 2000 this u can copy any where which is really cool just go to a search in 98 or xp and type in msconfig that's what i did ant way hope it works

by joseph moore

Yes, MSCONFIG is what you need. It has a Startup tab that displays everthing in the Startup folder AND in the RUN section of the Registry. You can then uncheck anything you don't want to run on boot.

Now, NT & 2K both do not come with MSCONFIG bydefault (but XP does!). So, go here to get a good 3rd party MSCONFIG for Win2K:

http://www.insideproject.com/showguide.cfm?guideid=31

hope this helps

by richardhurn

great idea - but the downloaded msconfig is wierd- puts me into aclosed loop on reboot without turning off the programs I tried to stop - nice interface, but the reboot loop is way confusing

by quintar51

Also, if you're brave enough to go into the registry, you can find 'msconfig' there.

go to start, run, regedit. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\windows\Current Version\Run.

This lists all startup programs.

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