Running msconfig, I have quite a few items
unchecked, and I'd like to remove them entirely
from the list. Some of these have been uninstalled,
but I'd like a simpler list. How do I go about
editing them out altogether?
You can't just "edit" them out because MSConfig's purpose in life is to
show you what has been started up and to allow you to temporarily turn
them off for trouble-shooting purposes. If they show in MSConfig but
were uninstalled, then either something else in the system wants to use
it, OR the uninstall didn't do its job of uninstalling properly.
MSConfig is intended to be a way to temporarily disable one thing and
then another, until you figure out which one or ones are causing your
problems. Thus its intent is to be a tool, not a settings manager.
I've never used the util that JS advises, but if it really does what it
says it does, then it may be useful in your case.
But the proper thing to do is to just stop those services from running
on your own using XPs native controls. By having done that, you also
know how to come back and easily turn them back on if at some later date
you discover that you need that service after all.
To mange your services, you go to Start; Run; and enter
services.msi
in the box. Now you can manually locate the service shown in MSConfig
that you want to stop, and set it to Manual or Disable it, then Restart.
Usually it's best to set them to "Manual" so that if anything else in
your computer needs that service, it will still be able to start it in
most cases. If you set it to Disabled, that service will not start,
whether it is needed or not.
As you're looking at the services this way, you can also see what
other programs and items might depend on that service. If you disable a
service that something else depends on, then that something else isn't
going to work anymore. So, you really should give some consideration to
other factors than just Disable or Manual Start.
HTH
Twayne
HTH
Twayne
