re: lil'o'lady made mstak & need 2 know how 2 clean up my [specific] startup menu
Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 10:10 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19240 messages posted)
Another one of the worthwhile concepts to follow is GET to the POINT. Yes you can
take the picture as you call it, but posting it here is not easy to do for a Newbie,
but also really serves no purpose. MSConfig is not intended to be used as a permanent
method of removing items from startup, which is why you got the message you did,
but you could have just ignored the message are selected to automatically ignore
the message. You don't really NEED anything that is listed in the startup there,
but that doesn't mean that you don't want any of of it... there is a difference.
The whole point of MSConfig is too temporarily disable startup items. Then if you
decide all is okay, you can use the location information to make a permanent removal
of the item.
The question that I have is WHY were you even doing this? A general rule to go by
is: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
On Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 9:29 am, lorraine wrote:
>1st, apologies if i'm in the wrong place for this help.
>If so, pls links to where i could get this prob solved.
>what's the opposite of computer geek or techie or
>whatever that term is? That's ME! <-| "Preserved
>spacing" as it looked *way* to garbled the other way.
>let me know if that's ok. Also, did some puttering with
>it after looking at the preview and saw 2ft. long lines!
>
>so sorry for not making note of specific terms when
>this happened, but i thought i was doing ok...'til....
>i went into msconfig and unchecked some programs
>to stop them from opening automatically and running
>in the bkgrd. Don't often reboot, so when i did a few
>days later, my opening window had a msg that i needed
>to put it all back like before. So i ck'd the 'put it into
>original ... ' button and every single thing in the System
>Config. Utility, Startup window had been opened up.
>NOT what i wanted at all! So i tried to remember what
>ones had been ck'd b4, to no avail.
>
>Can i somehow take pictures [thinking print screen to
>Word] of the list and upload it here somehow for someone
>to look at and help me ck / unck what i need to start up?
>thank you all so much! lorraine
>
>here are my computer specs, in case you need them.
>Not sure what of this is needed, but...
>OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 2002
>Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
>OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
>System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
>System Model Dimension 8300
>System Type X86-based PC
>Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2992 Mhz
>BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A05, 2/23/2004
>SMBIOS Version 2.3
>Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
>File System NTSF
>Monitor:Gforce FX 5200, adapter: AGP 8X, memory 128mb, system:
>processor- Intel Pentium[r] 4 with SSE2 directX version – 9.0+
>Dell Optiplex Gx270, Intel[R]
>
>Total Physical Memory 2.99GHz, 512.00 MB [2x256]
>CAPACITY FOR 4GB ~ 4 slots
>Options:
>*Buy 2 more 256MB and fill up the slots to get 1GB.
>*Buy 2 ~ 1GB $150@ [must buy 2] and fill up the slots to get 2.5GB.
>{this is better because, if I want to upgrade to 4GB later,
>I can just take out the 2x256 and put two more 1GB in their slots}
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