RE: Config\Startup operation - help!!

Hi

Rich Barry - I have done all that you say ( see my original thread) as it
should be, after de-ticking the various lines and then pressing "APPLY" the
system then askes you to restart. I do this and, as I told you, I go back
into the MSCONFIG\STARTUP, the entries are still there and still TICKED.

Further, the entries in the Registry are also there even after having
deleted them.

As I told you earlier, using a program called STARTUP INSPECTOR it tells me
that these entries are no longer valid entries but they are still there and I
can't get rid of them!!!
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"chesjak" wrote:

> Hi
> when I look at Startup in MSconfig, I notice that there five entries that
> are not necessary so I tried to delete them.
>
> I de-ticked the box for each of them and clicked apply. I then re-started
> and the usual screen came up telling me that I was using a modified Startup.
> I t ticked the box to say that I did not want the screen to show up the next
> time. However every time I start up, it does show up.
>
> In addition to this the five entries in Startup that I de-ticked are nor
> ticked again.
>
> These Items are no longer on my computer and I have even gone into System
> registry HKLM\software\MSwindows\current version\run to delete all five
> items.
>
> I come out of the registry and check the Startup again only to find that the
> entries that I de-ticked are now ticked again and still there. I look into
> the registry and find that the items are back in there also and have not been
> deleted.
>
> I have also looked at this with Startup Inspector programme. Thsi shows me
> that the five items in question "the file does not exist"
>
> Even deleting them with Startup Inspector does not get rid of them.
>
> Three of the files are:
>
> c:\program files\microsoft antispyware\gcasServ.exe
> C:\program files\executive software\diskeeper\DKICON.exe
> %system root"\system32\dumprep 0-K
> and also a ticked entry with nothing in the COMMAND COLUMN but a registry
> location (as is all of them) of HKLM\software\ms windows\current version\run
>
> Why, if the files do not exist, can i not delete them
> Why, if I delete them in the registry, do they keep comming back.
> Has anyone any idea as to what is going wrong and how I can rectify this.
>
> Hope the above is clear and hope someone can help.
>
> Regards
.

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