System Configuration Utility

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Eric Ogawa

I just wanted to know if Windows 2000 has the System Configuration Utility
so I can shutoff temporarily the software that starts up when Windows 2000
boots up.

Would appreciate any help anyone may have.

--Eric Ogawa
 
Eric said:
I just wanted to know if Windows 2000 has the System Configuration Utility
so I can shutoff temporarily the software that starts up when Windows 2000
boots up.

Would appreciate any help anyone may have.

--Eric Ogawa
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MSConfig is/was a Win98/Me utility, brought back in WinXP, which
is also targeted at the home consumer market. There is no equivalent
utility included with Win95/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.

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Natively you can; Start\Settings\Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer
Management(Local)\System Information\Software

Environment\Startup Programs|View|Advanced, then in the "Location" column,
you'll find the path to the "Startup" location either in the

"Startup" directories or from the registry's "Run" keys. (note that this
windows is read-only so you must manually navigate to the

location below to edit or otherwise delete)

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

You can delete the shortcuts that you no longer want to run.


HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You can delete the string value for the program you no longer want to run.

or copy msconfig from Windows XP to the "windows" directory
or AutoRuns from sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml


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:
|I just wanted to know if Windows 2000 has the System Configuration Utility
| so I can shutoff temporarily the software that starts up when Windows 2000
| boots up.
|
| Would appreciate any help anyone may have.
|
| --Eric Ogawa
|
|
 
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