My machine appears to be taking forever and ever to boot up these days.

How do you go about changing which programs start at bootup

and how do you determine what you really need? without f-ing everything up?

Its windows XP.

thanks

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

Start >> Run >> type in "Msconfig"

When the box appears, check "Services" tab, scroll down the list, look at the "Manufacturer" column and disable ALL those services of programs that YOU have installed.

Second tab is "Startup", check the "Command" column and disable those .exe files of programs that you see you have installed and don't want in the startup (apple, itunes, itunes, adobe etc.)

Select ok, reboot, you're done.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

Windows XP doesn't have msconfig. Very strange that they took it out. If you know someone with Windows 2000 you can grab it off that and it works fine.

or can probably find it on the interwebs somewhere.

[Tho I've just read on google that its the other way round.... hmmm, odd. could have sworn my copy doesn't have it]

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

I'm running windows XP Pro at work and I have msconfig box popup for me.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

Yeah, not sure I thought that. Is it on XP Home? Cos that might explain it as installed that to my mothers pc a few months back.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

why dont you install xp pro? never had home to be honest.. and msconfig works fine to me also a virus? i had some problem with a virus that it wont let me open msconfig or task manager or device manager.... i still have the problem but i cant format that pc coz their running some program on desktop server that i dont know how to install it so i dont want to take the risk on not installing that good and the boss blame me for trying hehehehe

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

I do have XP Pro No I don't have a virus.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

Msconfig should work fine in both XP Pro and Home.

Normally you have two identical copies of msconfig.exe in C:\Windows\System32\dllcache and C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries The dates of the two should be identical (when you last installed Windows) Try running it from one of the locations.. if not it is probably malware.

Try running a scan in safe mode - see if there is msconfig32.exe (there is no such thing in windows so definitely malware)

This article describes the new Tools tab that is available in the System Configuration utility (Msconfig.exe). The new Tools tab is available after you install the 906569 update on a Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)-based computer. [URL]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906569[/URL]

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

[quote=Kamal;736276]Start >> Run >> type in "Msconfig"

When the box appears, check "Services" tab, scroll down the list, look at the "Manufacturer" column and disable ALL those services of programs that YOU have installed.

Second tab is "Startup", check the "Command" column and disable those .exe files of programs that you see you have installed and don't want in the startup (apple, itunes, itunes, adobe etc.)

Select ok, reboot, you're done.[/quote]

thanks k - made a huge difference.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

Maybe I have it backwards and its 2000 that doesn't have msconfig

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

i have never seen a version of windows that doesn't have msconfig.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

As usual, I'm late to the party. Huggie, if you didn't get the msconfig thing to work for you go to live.sysinternals.com and download autoruns. This will show everything set to startup via all the different ways it can. Uncheck the stuff you don't want.

Re: Change programs that install at bootup

check post 9.