re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 10:03 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (598 messages posted) STOP PROGRAMS RUNNING AUTOMATICALLY AT STARTUP If you have too many programs running automatically at startup DO NOT attempt to edit the Registry directly. That way leads to tears before bedtime. 1. Go to: START > PROGRAMS > STARTUP and delete the shortcuts there. 2. Disable programs using System Configuration Utility: Click on START then on RUN, and in the "Open" box that pops up type MSCONFIG then click "OK", to open the System Configuration Utility. Click its STARTUP tab. On that tab, untick the entry for the troublesome program(s), then click "OK". Restart your computer. The program(s) will no longer load automatically on startup. If this proves to be a problem, go into the System Configuration Utility again, re-tick the entry for that program, click "OK", and restart the computer. The program(s) will then run on startup automatically every time, as before. Ed On Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 7:56 am, Shirl wrote: >I'm seeking help to find out how to disable programs that are in ctrl-alt-del as >the system I am working on boots extremely slow. I've tried numerous suggestions >mentioned in the postings here (some worked); however there are 2 programs msgloop.exe >and msg.exe that are not listed in msconfig/startup to uncheck, I tried finding them >in win.ini file with no luck. >I tried going to regedit HKEY Machine/software/ms/windows/current version and looked >in the run, run-, runonce, runservices and nothing there >soooooooo do you have any other suggestions to try? > >when I did a file search it found these exe. files in c:windows\system, c:windows\temp\Riptide..., >and in c:\windows\options\cab >I wasn't sure if entries in these could be deleted safely from running in background, >without affected the audio feature altogether. >From what I found out, these are from Riptide Audio that's on the system. >The Riptide Audio is listed in add/remove programs, but I don't want to uninstall >it, just don't have these running in the background. > >Hope this wasn't too confusing - my brain is scrambled :-) Thanks for any help >and thanks for this website, I've gotten lots of valuable help here Written in response to: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (Shirl: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 7:56 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (Shirl: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 7:56 am) re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (Alan: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 9:29 am) re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (Shirl: Tue, Oct 30, 2007, 4:40 pm) re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (Ed: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 10:03 am) re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (alex: Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 4:45 am) re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (Shirl: Tue, Oct 30, 2007, 4:47 pm) re: permanetly deleting programs from ctrl-alt-del (alex: Wed, Oct 31, 2007, 2:04 am) software to delete registry entries (Alan: Wed, Oct 31, 2007, 4:28 am) re: software to delete registry entries (Ed: Wed, Oct 31, 2007, 11:52 am) re: software to delete registry entries (Shirl: Wed, Oct 31, 2007, 12:26 pm) 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 98 Discussion Forum