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Windows Startup
Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Posted by Dewey Nelson
(135 messages posted)
I don't know the difference between the start programs under msconfig and the startup
sub folder to Windows. Should I be concerned and change things?
In addition, I have two programs in msconfig that I would like to uncheck, but when
I do they come back still checked! Hmmmmm.
Any help would be great. Uncle Dewey
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re: Windows Startup
Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Posted by bob wells
(1314 messages posted)
some information would help!
On Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 4:48 pm, Dewey Nelson wrote:
>I don't know the difference between the start programs under msconfig and the startup
>sub folder to Windows. Should I be concerned and change things?
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>In addition, I have two programs in msconfig that I would like to uncheck, but when
>I do they come back still checked! Hmmmmm.
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>Any help would be great. Uncle Dewey
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re: Windows Startup [items]
Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Posted by gewg_
(3558 messages posted)
|I don't know the difference between the start programs under msconfig...
| Dewey Nelson
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Think "Auto-start".
|...and the startup sub folder to Windows.
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Think "Start Button".
...and none of these are *programs*; they're *SHORTCUTS* to programs.
If you nuke a Shortcut then realize you want it back, it's simple to make a new one.
|Should I be concerned and change things?
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As Bob said, we need details to give specific advice.
As a rule, anything you don't ABSOLUTELY NEED running at Startup
shouldn't BE a Startup item.
Start it *manually* when you DO need it.
In addition, *useless* things that get put on my Start Button menu
(by 4th-rate installer programs that DON'T ASK PERMISSION), I don't leave there.
That is, things I don't routinely use the Start Button to launch will get nuked.
e.g. There is NO REASON to have a PDF reader there;
I don't know anybody who EVER launchs it by clicking that.
Extra junk in that menu is just more crap to scroll thru
when I'm trying to get to something that I actually DO launch via the Start Button.
|In addition, I have two programs in msconfig that I would like to uncheck,
|but when I do they come back still checked!
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Take your pick:
cache
of http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Autoruns.mspx
++Mark.Russinovich+Bryce.Cogswell
cache
of http://codestuff.tripod.com/products_starter.html
cache
of http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
++Startup.Control.Panel+Mike.Lin
cache
of http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2173,00.asp
++Startup.Cop+Neil.J.Rubenking
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