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Stop boot-up loading of several undesired TSR Programs
I am running Windows 98 First Edition on my HP Pavilion 6465 PC. When I do
“Ctrl+Alt+Del� immediately after boot-up a pop-up window titled “Close Program� appears which tells me the programs that are running. On my computer there are 23 programs loaded immediately after the boot-up has completed. What loads these programs upon boot-up and how do I PERMANENTLY stop the loading of several of these programs that I don’t need. Removing a program by way of “StartSettingsTaskbar & Start MenuStart Menu ProgramsRemove(Un-click program)� does not remove the program from the “Close Program� pop-up window when the computer is rebooted, also many of the programs don't appear in the Start Menu Programs folder. |
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I'd use msconfig - Startup tab.
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The procedure you described deletes shortcuts from the Start and
StartPrograms menu. It does not uninstall the programs. Use Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel for that. The optional startup applications that you are talking about get launched from a handful of different places during Startup. Some Registry keys, the Win.ini file, the Startup folder in the StartPrograms menu, and occasionally other locations.. You can control much of what gets loaded at startup by using System Configuration Utility. Run MSCONFIG from the StartRun box. You can view the list in more detail, including the location of the relevant startup command for each item, by running System Information (MSINFO32) and looking in "Software Environment" for "Startup Programs". You can also copy that list from MSINFO32 by clicking anywhere in the right-hand pane, then pressing Ctrl-A, then Ctrl-C. You can then Paste that list into a reply message here for comment. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "PSRumbagh" wrote in message ... I am running Windows 98 First Edition on my HP Pavilion 6465 PC. When I do “Ctrl+Alt+Del� immediately after boot-up a pop-up window titled “Close Program� appears which tells me the programs that are running. On my computer there are 23 programs loaded immediately after the boot-up has completed. What loads these programs upon boot-up and how do I PERMANENTLY stop the loading of several of these programs that I don’t need. Removing a program by way of “StartSettingsTaskbar & Start MenuStart Menu ProgramsRemove(Un-click program)� does not remove the program from the “Close Program� pop-up window when the computer is rebooted, also many of the programs don't appear in the Start Menu Programs folder. |
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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. -- 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 "PSRumbagh" wrote in message ... I am running Windows 98 First Edition on my HP Pavilion 6465 PC. When I do “Ctrl+Alt+Del� immediately after boot-up a pop-up window titled “Close Program� appears which tells me the programs that are running. On my computer there are 23 programs loaded immediately after the boot-up has completed. What loads these programs upon boot-up and how do I PERMANENTLY stop the loading of several of these programs that I don’t need. Removing a program by way of “StartSettingsTaskbar & Start MenuStart Menu ProgramsRemove(Un-click program)� does not remove the program from the “Close Program� pop-up window when the computer is rebooted, also many of the programs don't appear in the Start Menu Programs folder. |
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If you have no use at all for the programs, uninstall them from control
panel, add remove programs. For the ones that you want to keep but not start them at boot: To cut back on the number of programs starting at boot, check the programs themselves for an option not to load. You might have to double click an icon in the tray (others might require a right click) and then look for preferences or options. If you cannot find an option, look for the program in one of the following start up points and remove the reference to it: Start up folder on the start menu, the load= and run= lines in the win.ini and these registry run keys (use regedit.exe): 1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion*\Run 2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\*Run 3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion*\RunOnce 4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\*RunOnce 5. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion*\RunServices 6. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion*\RunServicesOnce 7. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion*\RunOnce\Setup There is a freeware program that makes this process a lot easier to manage: Startup Manager, http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/startupcpl/ You can use msconfig.exe, startup tab, to disable programs; however, by doing so, you may lessen its value as a troubleshooting tool. There might be some double entries in msconfig--leave those for your AntiVirus program and load power profile alone as they are required. If you disable an entry in msconfig or remove it from the start up point and the program loads again after a reboot, that is an indication that you missed an option on the program itself. If you don't know what an entry is, check he http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "PSRumbagh" wrote in message ... I am running Windows 98 First Edition on my HP Pavilion 6465 PC. When I do "Ctrl+Alt+Del" immediately after boot-up a pop-up window titled "Close Program" appears which tells me the programs that are running. On my computer there are 23 programs loaded immediately after the boot-up has completed. What loads these programs upon boot-up and how do I PERMANENTLY stop the loading of several of these programs that I don't need. Removing a program by way of "StartSettingsTaskbar & Start MenuStart Menu ProgramsRemove(Un-click program)" does not remove the program from the "Close Program" pop-up window when the computer is rebooted, also many of the programs don't appear in the Start Menu Programs folder. |
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PSRumbagh wrote:
I am running Windows 98 First Edition on my HP Pavilion 6465 PC. When I do “Ctrl+Alt+Del� immediately after boot-up a pop-up window titled “Close Program� appears which tells me the programs that are running. On my computer there are 23 programs loaded immediately after the boot-up has completed. What loads these programs upon boot-up and how do I PERMANENTLY stop the loading of several of these programs that I don’t need. Removing a program by way of “StartSettingsTaskbar & Start MenuStart Menu ProgramsRemove(Un-click program)� does not remove the program from the “Close Program� pop-up window when the computer is rebooted, also many of the programs don't appear in the Start Menu Programs folder. The best way is the go to the programs itself and check the preferences tab and look for any startup option. Also run msconfig and uncheck all but what you want.I have systray and scanregistry and my firewall and antivirus and one MS update on[kb891711]. Everything else don't need to start up.Unless you use a power profile turn this off too. I manually turn off my monitor when not needed. Get more ram memory,this helps when you have or need many programs to run at startup. The only programs in my close program is Explorer and systray,firewall and antivirus. Get Process explorer 9x from www.sysinternals.com. This will show additional processes. Some are windows background processes like spool and ddhelp kernal32 mmtask. Get spybot S&D and Ad_aware SE,also get regcleaner. Get these from www.majorgeeks.com under spyware and resistry. Remember to do the regular disk clean,scan disk and disk defrag[use ME Defrag]. Go to http://www.mdgx.com/reg.htm for tweaking ideas. Good luck |
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