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MSConfig for Win2k?

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by awarner 1 view

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I've literally just started playing with Windows 2000 Pro and the first thing I want to do is turn off much of the junk that starts automatically when Windows launches. In Win98, MSConfig would let me select little checkboxes to turn on/off items that launched during startup. Easy points to the first person to tell me of a similar command in Win2K (or how to disable starup objects if they don't appear in the Startup folder!!)
Thanks for any help you may provide.

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by duwaned

Hi.

As far as I know there is no GUI to do this in Win2K, but you can access these directly through the registry.

Run REGEDIT, and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

In there, you will find all the programs that run at startup. Delete the strings which are loding the executables you want to stop from running. I recomend making backups of the key before removing any entries from it!

Be careful though, as some of the entries are default windows components!

I hope this helps.
Regards.
Duwane.

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