re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 3:00 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
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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