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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 7:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chame1eon
(4 messages posted)
It doesn't matter where the startup entries are.
disabling any could cause odd behavior. For example by googling the ctfmon I find
an article that says disabling it with msconfig could cause problems with ms office,
but that UpdReg is just a program that reminds you to register a creative labs product.
The best thing to do would be to open the programs associated with the processes
and disable them from that interface.
After that you could effect stability, but though anthing is possible including crashes
or data destruction, if you know which program/hardware the process is associated
with if something happens it should be easy to just go back and reenable it.
On Monday, May 5, 2008 at 5:19 pm, lorraine wrote:
>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.
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>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"
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>Could i generally just disable all the files in some of these categories and/or
> should i absolutely not in others.
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>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]
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>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.
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>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"
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