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Old August 26th 05, 12:37 AM
margie
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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.
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Old August 27th 05, 11:57 PM
PattyL
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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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Old August 28th 05, 01:53 AM
margie
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Thanks I will try this next time I am working on his computer
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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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Old August 28th 05, 02:08 AM
Brian A.
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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


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Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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"margie" wrote in message
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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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