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by jeff_scalia

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i recently encountered a problem on a windows millineum machine, the system configuration utility or(msconfig)will not open on this machine i have tried accessing it from start, run, msconfig. from find, msconfig and then double clicking on the application. and by going to the system information, tools, system configuration utility. none of these will open it up. anyone have any answers?
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Jeff Scalia

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by kizbit

Does the utility start to open? do you recieve any error messages? do you have another machine that the utility does work on that you can copy it from? If you are simply trying to limit what runs on startup you can do it manually by editing win.ini,the startup group on your programs menu and the registry. In the case of the registry you will find the entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

by b.scott1

Is this a stand alone box or part of a network. If it is on a network, the sysad may have disabled the capability to run the msconfig program. Have you tried accessing directly from C:\windows\system\msconfig.exe in the run box?

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