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re: lil'o'lady made mstak & need 2 know how 2 clean up my [specific] startup menu
Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chame1eon
(4 messages posted)
msconfig is mainly used to troubleshoot problems, but there is no reason not to use
it to disable the things in the startup tab especially if there is any chance you
might change your mind. It is a lot easier and safer than editing the registry,
and is a nice central location for enabling/disabling start up items no matter where
the information is stored imo.
It's pretty safe to disable anything that is on that tab, but it could cause things
to work differently than they did before.
If you want to see if you can improve performance by disabling start up items you
can try, It's Most Likely harmless and easily reversible.
The safest thing to do would be to disable any processes you find in the list from
the programs that create them.
If you don't want to do that if you google the processes and understand them you
could be better off. The decision to leave something checked or unchecked has a
lot to do with personal preference anyway.
Otherwise (this isn't the safest solution) you can uncheck them all or uncheck them
one by one and just see what happens.
Getting a popup that says something along the lines of "you have used the system
configuration utility...."
is normal and it's ok to just check the box telling it not to display the message
again.
I don't remember how to disable visual effects in 2000, but maybe that could help
too, and if you feel like doing some reading blackviper.com might have some good
information for disabling unnessecary services.
Just remember computers are pretty complex and anything is possible if you're experimenting
and it is safest to have back ups of anything that you don't want to loose no matter
what you're doing.
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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