Re: msconfig.exe does not work

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To prevent an application from starting with Windows:

1- Open the application, go through its menus, look for the setting that starts the application with Windows, turn that setting off.

2- [If no such setting] Go to Start > All Programs > Startup and delete the shortcut to the program.

3- [If no shortcut] Contact the application's technical support and ask for advice.

The Startup tab in the System Configuration Utility is used for troubleshooting.

The above procedures will likely have no effect if what you want to prevent starting with Windows is a virus or other malicious software.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Bebb wrote:
Hello!
msconfig.exe does not work. I cannot remove the programs from Startup!!!! I have to put the System Cofiguration Utility back to NORMAL, it does not let me change the Startup process.!!!!!

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

What, exactly, is your question? Is there a specific problem you are trying to solve?

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Bebb wrote:
I have been reading here for 4 + hrs and none of the helpers say anything about what is happening to my XP system. I did the Start/Run/msconfig.exe/Startup remove all the programs, clicked Apply, restarted my pc, when at Startup a window pops up:... I should put back the System Configuration Utility back to NORMAL. I click OK, the startup process continued and the msconfig.exe comes back up and I click NORMAL, have to restart my pc again.
After reading helps here I did mscon... and I checked the Taskbar & Startmenu, cleared all the Startups/Apply/restart. The same box saying I have to turn it back to Normal startup came, and did just that restarted. It does not work!
I also tried to remove the programs to startup at (Startup) by hand, and some do not have that Option. My pc has 1.5 GHz and 256 MB RAM and is slowing down an aweful lot, takes at least 10 mins until I can use it, and when I move from page to page/window to window it takes sometimes more than one whole minute (more) for the new page/window to come up, and another 1 for the page's final download.
Also, I have Trend Micro Internet Security and I know that this program takes allot of memory to work. I have DSL (Verizon)
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