Jules said:
Thanks, win2k is new to me but i think i did what yousaid
I've recently downloaded Win2k Pro, (which is a very good operating
system, incidentally), but it lacks some important facilities offered
by Win XP, such as 'msconfig.exe', without all the heavy consumption of
resources of your PC.
A good way of preventing any particular program from automatically
starting after boot-up of Win2k is as follows.
Open C:\WINNT\Regedit.exe, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which is one of the
major 5 registry keys (Hives) listed on the left. Under this Hive
(HKLM) find the path Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run.
Under the 'Run' key, listed on the right are all the applications that
start up automatically after boot. Simply delete the one you want to
prevent starting by highlighting the appropriate listed application on
the right, eg avast.exe, then exit Regedit.exe. You can use this method
to add applications such as Word if you want that to start up at boot.
Be careful not to delete anything else in the Registry. Alternatively,
download MsConfig.exe as explained, which is more user friendly, and
use that, but it's not really necessary.
