Editing What Starts Up in Windows 2000

Yes, Win2K does not have MSCONFIG, but if you can still get your hands on a Win98/M3 box, just copy MSCONFIG.EXE onto a floppy and paste it onto the Win2K box. It does work!
You get 4 startup errors running it on Win2K, since autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini and system.ini don't exist in Win2K. But that is ok. Just click OK on the errors and ignore them.
Then the normal MSCONFIG window comes up.
Just click the Startup tab, and unselect everything you don't want to run.

It is just easierthis way than plowing through the Registry to get rid of the stuff.

run regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

pick what u dont want

I've also found a handy little utility I drag around everywhere I go called autoruns.exe... Download here:
http://www.webattack.com/get/autoruns.shtml

Here is a link for a msconfig for windows 2000.

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

pretty slick

hope this helps

You can also copy the MS Config from Windows XP. It works

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If you have access to a WIN XP machine, you can copy the MSCONFIG.exe and it works