MSCONFIG

No, but I've heard that you can copy msconfig.exe from a Win98 machine to a Win95 machine, and it will work.

msconfig is a program to automate and somewhat error protect editing of the system files on your PC.

There are 2 programs in windows 95, (and98) that can be used to edit the same information as msconfig.
They are sysedit, and regedit.

WARNING!!! BACK UP FILES AND PROCEED WITH CAUTION. IMPROPER EDITING OF THE SYSTEM FILES CAN CAUSE YOUR COMPUTER TO NOT FUNCTION!!!

Sysedit allows you to view and modify the system files;
autoexec.bat
config.sys
system.ini
win.ini

These files are somewhat holdovers from Win 3.1, and use DOS command syntax for the functions.
Thus, if you wish to temporarily disable a linne in the file, all you need to do is add "rem " to the front of the line.

Regedit, edits the system registry. This is the core information that windows uses for all hardware and programs.

If you are looking to disable startup items, you need to look at all of the run and runonce keys.

MSCONFIG is reading from the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows --> CurrentVersion -->

Run
RunOnce

Sections. From Win95 or Win98 first edition, you can navigate to that part of the registry and remove them from Run or RunOnce and the application will not start at boot.

MSCONFIG works on Windows 95. I have copied it to a floppy disk and run it from there when I come across a Windows 95 machine. It is a time saver.

To copy it to a floppy: run a search on the drive Windows 98 is installed on for "msconfig", then copy all files to a floppy. There should be four, one is the program itself and the other three are help files. You don't need the help files, but they all add up to only 175Kb, so why not?

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