FYI Wednesday, August 15, 2001 at 6:51 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted) Save yourself the trouble of dragging msconfig over from a 98 box. If you open the registry and drill down to: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run you will find the settings for programs that start on bootup. On Wednesday, August 15, 2001 at 1:42 am, Eli Whitney wrote: >If you just want them disabled for your present session, right click on the icon >in the system tray and click exit or disable. > >To permanently remove them, you may have to try a few different things. First, look >in the StartUp folder -- many times you can delete the shortcut from there. > >Second, get a copy of a Windows 98 utility called msconfig.exe. It's in the windows >or windows\system directory. Once you run it in Windows 2000, it will give you several >errors, such as it can't find the autoexec.bat or the config.sys files -- just ignore >and click through the errors. It will then give you a list of programs that are >started when Windows 2000 boots. You can check or uncheck programs you don't want >started during boot up. > >Finally, you can disable some programs by going to the start/programs/administrative >tools folder and running Services. You can change a service from starting automatically >to starting manually. > > >On Monday, August 13, 2001 at 7:22 pm, John Klemes wrote: >>How does one add or remove icons from systray, which run various programs under >windows >>2000? Written in response to: re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Eli Whitney: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 at 1:42 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Adding and removing icons from Systray (John Klemes: Mon, Aug 13, 2001, 7:22 pm) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Sachin Salvi: Thu, Sep 23, 2004, 11:59 pm) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Curt R: Mon, Aug 13, 2001, 7:43 pm) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Mike: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 11:16 am) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (akm: Sun, Jun 13, 2004, 9:12 am) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Prem: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 9:42 am) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Asperj Sakatqn: Mon, Feb 14, 2005, 6:53 am) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Eli Whitney: Wed, Aug 15, 2001, 1:42 am) FYI (Curt R: Wed, Aug 15, 2001, 6:51 am) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Mark Bero: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 8:39 pm) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Pam T: Tue, Aug 19, 2003, 6:09 pm) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Curt R: Sun, Aug 19, 2001, 6:41 am) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Dr. B: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 5:54 pm) re: Adding and removing icons from Systray (Kris: Tue, Jul 8, 2003, 11:05 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum