System Configuration Utility?

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Jeff

Does anyone know if there is a System Configuration
Utility in Windows 2000 Professional? In 98 and XP I can
type msconfig at the Run prompt and get a utility window
where I can modify files and/or turn off start up programs.

I can't remember how 2000 works. I thought this utility
was still available, but you had to type in something else
besides msconfig (i.e. configsys, mscfg, etc..)

Anyway, does anyone know how/if I can get to this utility?
If not, how do you perform the same functions (i.e.
troubleshoot, or more specifically, turn off start-up
group items)?

Thanks,

Jeff
 
Greetings --

MSConfig is/was a Win98/Me utility, brought back in WinXP, which is
also targeted at the home consumer market. There was no equivalent
utility included with WinNT/Win2K.

In most cases, one need only open the offending program and
deselect the option to "display icon in the system tray" or to "start
when Windows starts."

To view the list of your start up programs, look in the
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up and
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up
folders, and in the system registry, primarily in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys. These can
also be viewed, if I remember correctly, by right-clicking My
Computer, selecting "Manage" and expanding System Tools-- System
Information -- Software Environment -- Startup Programs. To prevent
any of them from starting at login, you'll have to delete shortcuts
from the startup folder(s) and/or edit the registry. I should point
out that, in order to make such system modifications requires one to
have administrative privileges to the machine in question. I should
also point out that one should not even consider editing the registry
unless he is fully confident that he knows exactly what is going to
happen as a result of each and every change.


Bruce Chambers

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