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I am helping my elderly neighbour and on start up he has a sort of brick
desktop which changes to what it should be when it boots up (Blue windows background) I have noticed that where the desktop icons go they stay like brick until the icons come up yet the rest of the screen is blue. Start up is very slow. -- margiegirl |
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Try disabling the Active Desktop. Your neighbor probably has one background
set on the normal desktop and another on the Active Desktop causing the behavior that you mention. Active desktop may slow the system startup somewhat because it goes through the extra step of changing the desktop. See this article: How to Enable or Disable the Active Desktop http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190228 PattyL "margie" wrote in message ... I am helping my elderly neighbour and on start up he has a sort of brick desktop which changes to what it should be when it boots up (Blue windows background) I have noticed that where the desktop icons go they stay like brick until the icons come up yet the rest of the screen is blue. Start up is very slow. -- margiegirl |
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Thanks I will try this next time I am working on his computer
-- margiegirl "PattyL" wrote: Try disabling the Active Desktop. Your neighbor probably has one background set on the normal desktop and another on the Active Desktop causing the behavior that you mention. Active desktop may slow the system startup somewhat because it goes through the extra step of changing the desktop. See this article: How to Enable or Disable the Active Desktop http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190228 PattyL "margie" wrote in message ... I am helping my elderly neighbour and on start up he has a sort of brick desktop which changes to what it should be when it boots up (Blue windows background) I have noticed that where the desktop icons go they stay like brick until the icons come up yet the rest of the screen is blue. Start up is very slow. -- margiegirl |
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To add to Patty's advice you may want to take a look at what applications are
starting at boot. There may be applications that are not needed at boot and can be started manually when needed. If you want to stop programs from loading on boot there are several ways to accomplish it: You should only use msconfig for troubleshooting problems, although it could be used for stubborn programs until you find a way to disable them otherwise. Click Start Run, type in: msconfig and hit enter. Click on the Startup tab and uncheck the program you wish to disable. If the program adds a new second entry on reboot, then there is probably a way in the programs options that will disable it. Right click on the programs icon in the systray to see if there is an option to disable it from loading on boot. Open the program/s in question and check their options to see if they have one to disable it from loading on boot. Remove any entries from the Startup folder that you do not want to load on boot. Uninstall the program you don't want loading if out of other options. Look in Start Run, type in: sysedit and hit enter. Click on the win.ini window and see if there is anything after load= or run=, these lines are usually blank after the =. Remove anything after the = on those lines if you do not want it running. Look in the Registry under these keys to either remove the entry or comment it out to disable it from loading on boot: Start Run, type in: regedit and hit enter. Navigate to the following keys: hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\curre nt version\run hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\curre nt version\RunOnce hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\curr ent version\run hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\curr ent version\RunOnce hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\curr ent version\RunOnceEx hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\curr ent version\RunServices hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\curr ent version\RunServicesOnce Remove the entire entry in a key by right clicking in the right pane on the data name in the Name column, click Delete in the popup menu, confirm deletion and close regedit. Or Add REM and a space to the beginning of the data string value by double clicking on the data name in the Name column, click once in front of the string value so your cursor is at the beginning of the string, type rem, press the space bar, click OK and close regedit. Always backup the registry before making any changes so that you may import the keys back in should anything go wrong. Haphazardly removing keys in the registry is very dangerous and can render your system useless. Be 100% sure of what you are doing and what you remove can be safely done. You can Backup the registry key/s while in regedit: Click on Registry on the menu bar while in the registry, click on “Export Registry File.�. Choose a location, I recommend saving it to the desktop and it makes it easy to find. Place a check next to “Selected Branch� and give the file a memorable name, select save, make your changes and close out. If you have no problems after say 2 weeks, you can delete the exported files. If you have problems, double click the reg file on the desktop to import/merge it back into the registry. Do Not back up the entire registry in the registry editor. Importing it back while in windows can be harmful to the machine. A registry backup is created each new calendar day a machine is booted. If you wish to perform a new backup of the registry after the machine has been booted, got to Start Run, type in: scanregw and hit enter. You will be prompted that a registry has already been backed up for the day and do you wish to create a new one, click yes. More on Backing up/restoring the registry: How to Back Up the Registry in Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;256419 HOW TO: Backup, Edit, and Restore the Registry in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;322754 How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;221512 -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "margie" wrote in message ... I am helping my elderly neighbour and on start up he has a sort of brick desktop which changes to what it should be when it boots up (Blue windows background) I have noticed that where the desktop icons go they stay like brick until the icons come up yet the rest of the screen is blue. Start up is very slow. -- margiegirl |
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