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ms <[email protected]>:

A related note. Your startup manager will show the command for the daily
w98 reg backup: "scanregw.exe /autorun". It doesn't take super long when
that runs -- but it does take, I don't know, a minute or so. And, from
how I remember, its default startup entry is in a location where it does
its stuff first, and makes everyone else wait.

I found it better to move that command out of the registry, and instead
run from the startup folder, having it launch late, after most everyone
else.

You should be able to make that change with a startup manager. If you're
not running a startup manager that will do the move automatically, then
you could create the shortcut (scanregw.exe /autorun) yourself, putting
that in your startup folder. Then have your startup manager remove the
scanregw run entry from the registry.

Thanks. I will try it and post back.

Mike Sa

 

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One new item after restoring an old registry- after desktop appears, now there is
an abnormally long (3-4 minutes) HD running time before usual resting state,
several of my utilities now wait to appear in System Tray until HD processing
stops. Before it was settling down in about 15 seconds.

As I posted earlier, you need to run a startup manager, and see what entries
are about in that. It is very important for any computer user to be vigilant
in that area.

I now have a new explanation, too, for what could cause the symptoms you
describe. That SafeXp program you used. When I ran it, it entered a great
lot of bad krappo under this key:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\

Report of my actions and logs, <[email protected]>.
If it did the same on your system, which I suspect it did, then what you
describe about all that hard drive activity, and delays, when Windows is
trying to boot up, that makes sense. Windows, in its loading process,
is grueling around trying to read and figure out all the strange and
inapplicable calls that SafeXP wrote into your Services key.

So really, I hope that you have a registry backup from before your fooling
around with that SafeXP thing...