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re: lil'o'lady made mstak & need 2 know how 2 clean up my [specific] startup menu
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by lorraine
(4 messages posted)
thanks, chameleon.
i've looked on the net 4 the ones i'm not familiar with, but the sites are techie
sites and don't give me fundamental info about what basic programs or _?_ they are
from.
so, what i see in the startup tab [some individually listed below w/ questions] are
things in these 3 locations:
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Windows\..."
"Common Startup"
"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
Could i generally just disable all the files in some of these categories and/or
should i absolutely not in others.
7 in "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Windows\..." Locations.
5 of which are programs i know.
2 are ones i don't know, and am suspect of stopping w/ these commands: c:WINDOWS\UpdReg.EXE
and C:WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe [that one looks like one i shouldn't fool w/, but
i don't know]
8 in "Common Startup" location.
i recognize all of those except a funny looking command:
"C:PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\Office\OSA9.EXE -b -l" in the Startup Item named Microsoft Office,
which of course i know, but the command looks weird.
36 in "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" Location. Recognize all but:
"c:\windows\system32\dla\tfswctrl.exe" did a regedit and it is a "drive letter access
component".
There ARE 2 that are simply blank in the Startup Item and Command columns, but are
listed "in" the SOFTWARE... location.
Another [regedited] in ...Shared Tools > MSConfig > startupreg > SM1BG. named "C:\WINDOWS\SM1BG.EXE"
On Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm, Chame1eon wrote:
>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.
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