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| Thread ID: 28512 | 2002-12-22 00:49:00 | w2k eqivelant of msconfig start up option? | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 108111 | 2002-12-22 04:17:00 | i'm refering to uneeded programmes that start up when the computer does .Clueless |
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| 108112 | 2002-12-22 05:39:00 | Hey Should've thought so... Maybe I should take over the name Clueless :p Take a look under these in your registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run As this is where the majority of startup items are located... Just delete the entries you don't want :D CyberChuck |
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| 108113 | 2002-12-22 06:03:00 | OK... i'm on my way. Thanks for that CC .Clueless |
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| 108114 | 2002-12-22 06:29:00 | Well been there, done the edit, and have a computer that seems a bit happier It amases me what some people put on "work" computers. Example: Whats the point of having winamp on a computer with no speakers? Dont get me wrong, i like winamp, but it aint that clever! .Clueless |
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| 108115 | 2002-12-22 06:37:00 | Perhaps Microsoft decided to make msconfig a separate download for Windows 2000. It sure as hell doesn't work on my 2K computer, yet it works on XP Professional. I'm deciding that Microsoft thought business users didn't need to play around with those settings (especially since some of the options in msconfig could seriously stuff up a computer that is fine tuned to run network applications, logons, etc. |
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| 108116 | 2002-12-22 06:44:00 | You really think so? If you look in the MSCONFIG and startup tab you [should] not find a single instance to disable logins - Microsofts not that stupid. However, in a business environment, wouldn't the network administrator just disable access to MSCONFIG to stop people stopping network applications? As for why people would install audio proggie's on a PC with no speakers, maybe they were hoping to somehow manipulate the BIOS speaker into emitting a series of beeps which somewhat sound like the song they want to hear :p CyberChuck |
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| 108117 | 2002-12-22 06:55:00 | Did you realise there is more to MSCONFIG than the Startup tab? Playing around under the Advanced button options on the General tab could cause some serious problems. |
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| 108118 | 2002-12-22 06:59:00 | I'll agree to that. But it still doesn't answer the WHY part of the question - as to WHY was it excluded from Windows 2000. And also most average users aren't aware of MSConfig in the first place. Like I said, if a Network Administrator didn't want people to access it then why not create restrictions? CyberChuck |
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| 108119 | 2002-12-22 07:00:00 | Also, wasn't XP Prof. intended as a Business OS?? so why then is it included in there? | cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 108120 | 2002-12-22 07:08:00 | Look, no one here knows why it wasn't included. I think it's because of security risks, such as those Advanced options. Sometimes there are circumstances where an administrator doesn't want to make a certain group of people Power Users, but wants them to be able to run MSCONFIG. Administrators have to think about things like this. As another point, not many users know about MSCONFIG anyway. I think Microsoft put it back in XP because they realised many people liked it. Why they came to realise that could be for many reasons - one of them being MSDN members may have commented how it was a good tool. I think my Windows 2000 computer has MSCONFIG on it. It might've been included in one of the Service Packs, or a separate download. I'd search on Microsoft's website (http://www.microsoft.com) to see about this, if you really want MSCONFIG back, or see if it works being copied off a computer that does have it - preferrable XP. |
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