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Before "Clean Boot"
(Former post under subject of "Two Problems - W98")
My PC operates W98 & IE6 SP1. Before trying Gary S Terhune's "Clean Boot" routine, and trying another Defrag, I couldn't help but notice that on the "Start-Up" tab of "msconfig" my PC has 51 programs. Of these, only 21 are selected (including "Intervideo WinCinema Manager" & "Load Power Profile" being duplicated), 4 are definitely not wanted ("Time Calendar", "AOL Instant Messenger", "Screen Saver Control" & "Time Calendar LE") and the rest (some 24) are not known to me. I would welcome some advice as to what to do about it, if anything? Should I get rid of them - if so How? Are there some I should keep? I am delaying all further work in this area for now. Regards PeterO ===== |
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The sites listed below should help you understand and identify the startup items, to
determine which need to be removed, and how to go about that: Clean up your startup group: http://www.rickrogers.org/clean.htm Startup Programs Loading: http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm Start-ups: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm Task List Programs: http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm StartUps: http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm StartUp List: http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html Windows Startup Online Repository: http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/search.php Post back with your list if you need more help and someone may recognise some of them. To do so, follow the procedure below: Click StartRun, type MSINFO32 and click OK. In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the "Software Environment" category. In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list on the right. Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the right. Press Ctrl-C to copy the list to the 'clipboard'. Open a reply to this message, click in the body of the message and press Ctrl-V to paste the list from the clipboard to the message, and post back to this thread. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Peter Ostrolenk" wrote in message ... (Former post under subject of "Two Problems - W98") My PC operates W98 & IE6 SP1. Before trying Gary S Terhune's "Clean Boot" routine, and trying another Defrag, I couldn't help but notice that on the "Start-Up" tab of "msconfig" my PC has 51 programs. Of these, only 21 are selected (including "Intervideo WinCinema Manager" & "Load Power Profile" being duplicated), 4 are definitely not wanted ("Time Calendar", "AOL Instant Messenger", "Screen Saver Control" & "Time Calendar LE") and the rest (some 24) are not known to me. I would welcome some advice as to what to do about it, if anything? Should I get rid of them - if so How? Are there some I should keep? I am delaying all further work in this area for now. Regards PeterO ===== |
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Try Glee's sites to see whether you need 51 items. The two
"LoadPowerProfiles" are normal. Also... If you have an item in "MSConfig, Startup tab" duplicated, but one is checked & the other(s) are not, check them all & click "Apply, OK". It will ask that you reboot. Answer "No". You will be left with just one, if they were true duplicates. "Then you should either uninstall the programs you don't want loaded or use their setup/config programs to disable the parts you don't want loaded", says Richard G. Harper (MVP MPS-D). But if it doesn't work, or you have an unchecked one without a duplicate, then... MSConfig keeps it in Startup, just in case you want to check it again. It has not been loaded to run, as Ctrl-Alt-Del shows. It has been moved to a Minus (-) Key in the Registry. To remove it from the Registry, you may navigate to the Key, and delete the entry under it. That will also remove it from MSConfig Startup, where you will no longer be able to check it. It's probably under one of these Keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices - ^... That minus sign wrapped away from "RunServices-". Also he "C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\Disabled Startup Items" "START, Run, Win.ini". Delete any 'norun' entries under the [Windows] section. You would navigate to each key, by clicking the plus signs in the left pane. When you see "Run-", click it and look in the right pane, for what looks like the one your looking for. R-Clk it in the right pane and select "delete". However, first: "Registry menu, Export Registry File". This will create a .reg file of that Minus Key, which you may run (by clicking) to undo the delete you are about to do. All of that can more easily be done with http://www.pcmag.com/ ' RegEdit+, which has a customizable "Favorites" list, which includes those Minus Keys. It also has automatic "undo". Registry Detective is another worthy program freely downloadable there. StartupCop may really be what you need, also there. Watch out, keep the LoadPowerProfiles, and, I guess, any virus scanner duplicates. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Peter Ostrolenk" wrote in message ... | (Former post under subject of "Two Problems - W98") | | My PC operates W98 & IE6 SP1. | | Before trying Gary S Terhune's "Clean Boot" routine, and trying another | Defrag, I couldn't help but notice that on the "Start-Up" tab of "msconfig" | my PC has 51 programs. | Of these, only 21 are selected (including "Intervideo WinCinema Manager" & | "Load Power Profile" being duplicated), 4 are definitely not wanted ("Time | Calendar", "AOL Instant Messenger", "Screen Saver Control" & "Time Calendar | LE") and the rest (some 24) are not known to me. | I would welcome some advice as to what to do about it, if anything? Should I | get rid of them - if so How? Are there some I should keep? | I am delaying all further work in this area for now. | Regards | PeterO | ===== | | |
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