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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 3:00 pm
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Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted)


You can do your defrag in safe mode too or turn off all running programs shown in the window when you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete EXCEPT Explorer. I do.


On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 7:05 am, Larry Maturo wrote:
>I have a comment about How
>do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?
:

In Windows ME there
>is a utility called msconfig that you can run from the start/run menu, just by typing
>in msconfig. It has three options on the first tab:


>

  • Normal Startup
  • Diagnostic Startup
  • Selective Startup

Using
>selective startup you can completely control everything that gets run at startup.

Selective
>startup with nothing checked is perfect for defraging your hard drive, since you
>won't be bothered by background tasks causing a restart.


>
>


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Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Larry Maturo: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 7:05 am)

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-Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Larry Maturo: Wed, Mar 20, 2002, 7:05 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Cam: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 3:00 pm)
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