Re: Msconfig startup items

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Stan Brown wrote:


I get so tired of seeing certain people post "don't use MSCONFIG to make permanent change to startup -- it's a diagnostic tool." There's a measure of truth to that, but it's not the whole story,


Actually, it *is* the whole story. Even in its first iteration in Win98, MSConfig was designed and intended as a diagnostic tool.


and I think it alarms people unnecessarily.



Why should a simple statement of fact, accompanied by advice on the correct way of managing start up application, alarm anyone.


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