Re: Getting rid of startup items?

Don't use msconfig to disable startup items in the first place.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:%23TfJhwuzGHA.3440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Patrick <panamapatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Go to http://www.snapfiles.com/get/msconfigcleanup.html and download
MSCONFIG CLEANUP, the simplest tool that removes disabled startup entries
from MSCONFIG.
Patrick


"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23BDRhDJzGHA.3280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BillL wrote:

Accessing run>msconfig>start-up to disable start-up items I no longer
use I now have a long list of programs I'd like to delete so they
don't appear in the list of start-up apps - how do I do this in XP
Home? I remember (during brief moments of clarity ;-) that running
Win98/ME it was simplicity its self (there was a simple option to
remove unused start-up programs) but XP doesn't supply this option.


Go here http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and click on the
right side of line 148.


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