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Not found msconfig in Win2000

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Trying to remotely support (phone) office PC (1GHz Duron, 256MbSDRAM) under Windows 2000 Pro (stand-alone). Initial problem with modem/internet connection, results led me to believe some other app was interfering with aol - tried to Run msconfig to selective startup, but 'file not found, path invalid' resulted from Run command, and nothing found under Search. Sure it ought to be in C:\WINNT\System32, but sister assures me it's not there. Had trouble locating it from my own machine, Run didn't find it, but Search did. My version also specifies it as an SP4 build - surely it's present in 2000 before SP4? Would find it a lot easier to troubleshoot if I could disable Startup group. Any tips for locating msconfig, or accounting for where it might have moved to, or how to do similar without it, much appreciated. My sister's tearing her hair out.

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by thechas

MSCONFIG is NOT part of Windows 2000.

Microsoft left it out.

Most users that have msconfig on a W2K box copied the files from a W98 system.

It works just fine.

Options:
There are a number of startup managers and utilities posted at www.nonags.com

Check the RUN and related keys in the registry.
Check the legacy system files.

Run an Ad-Ware finder / removal tool such as AdAware (www.lavasoft.de)

Chas

by thechas

Check out this MS Technet article:

http://tinyurl.com/33aok

From Tip number 5:

"And yes, I know we could see this information from msconfig.exe once, but Windows 2000 doesn't include this tool. The good news is that msconfig.exe is back on Windows XP Professional."

I also searched the list of fixes for SP4 and msconfig was not in the text of the list of fixes.

Chas

by kenlea1

RE: Reply. Did not know that - I've usually upgraded individual PCs to Win2000 from '98,so it must survive the upgrtade. But then why does my version give its build as SP4, unless SP4 modified it, in which case it is part of 2000... Not entirely convinced.

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