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Does anyone know how to access startup items in Win 2000? A friend at work has asked me how to remove unnecessary items from loading with Windows, but she doesn't seem to have MSConfig the way XP and Vista do. Embarrassingly, she came to me because she considered me better informed about computers in general, and I can't answer this simple question!
Is anyone familiar with Win 2k? I've only used it at work where I haven't had access to startup items anyway.
Well you can do it in administrative tools, but when faced with the same issue, I opted to download MS config. The XP version works with Windows 2000.
http://www.techadvice.com/win2000/m/msconfig_w2k.htm
That's great JPnyc, many thanks for your advice, it's exactly what I was looking for!
Or you can just use good old regedit!
You can also copy msconfig from one of you're xp workstations to the 2000 workstations.
Though, I've alwasy been a fan of hijackthis and startuplist from Merijn
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php
WolfeTone: Don't forget that there are many places that programs can hide to start themselves. Regedit is nice, but it's easier to have a utility that will report to you all the programs starting from the various places. :) Not that Moira is inexperienced... but I don't recommend people to just start poking around and modifying the registry.
The Woflman prefers the ways of the ol'school. Yeah!
Click on Start, then Run. Type regedit.
Browse to the following key
Code:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Wolfman, that was not very good advice. What you suggest will only show programs that are going to start for the current user...
For a more thorough list of start locations, check out the following tutorial.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...utorial44.html
Personally I am with Phish on this...
I love Hijack this....it shows all the crap buried in the registry
MLF
The Wolfman humbly agrees with the Phish. The bleepingcomputer.com article is a more intuitive solution to removing start-up items. But The Wolfman's original suggestions is a good start for it will remove someQuote:
Originally Posted by phishphreek
for Moira's friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moira
That sounds complicated :) I've passed all this information on, many thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by phishphreek
I'm amazed that we got this far in this thread without anyone mentioning how remarkably stupid it was for Microsoft to omit MS config from Win 2000. They really do make you scratch your noggin sometimes.
I must admit I was surprised to learn Win 2k had no msconfig - otherwise it's a good operating system.
So was I when I first found out. In fact I kept searching for it because I just assumed it had to be there somewhere. I couldn't imagine why it would be omitted. Still can't.
The Wolfman just search his whole hard drive.....found a lot of Jpegs, but no MSConfig :) The Wolfman also checked Add/Remove programs for any Windows compoenents that may include MSConfig....nothing.
It's strange that MS decided not to include it. Maybe they simply forgot? It is in XP and Vista.
I suspect it is just one of those historical quirks?
It was in 98(Gold), 98SE, ME, XP and now Vista. Windows 2000 was an development of NT 4.0 ( it is even called NT 5.0 in some of the documentation) which didn't have it.
If you look in NT 4.0 you will find 4 quickbasic files, but there is no runtime environment for them................gorillas.bas is one :D The developers borrowed some code from the Win 95 team and didn't realise that they could delete those files. I guess it is down to the development team involved?
The XP version will work in Win 2000 ;)
Look hard enough and you may find it. I remember dredging it upQuote:
If you look in NT 4.0 you will find 4 quickbasic files, but there is no runtime environment for them................gorillas.bas is one The developers borrowed some code from the Win 95 team and didn't realise that they could delete those files.
and playing the old gorilla game at work on NT4. Mighta been an upgrade from Win95 though. The runtime was qbasic.exe, and was needed for the
older versions of the text editor edit.com
Love computer trivia!
:cool:
Hi,
It came with DOS 5.0 IIRC?
http://telcontar.net/Misc/Gorillas/ :D new and old versions available at the link.
"nibbles" was the other one:
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=210541
Surprised nobody mentioned AutoRuns. I've all but stopped using MsConfig since finding that little Sysinternals gem.
Yeah, that's what they thought at work when I startedQuote:
Originally Posted by Moira
tweaking the W2K workstations with msconfig. One of
my fellow admins took me to task over it, questioning just
what I was disabling on startup (Google toolbar updater,
qttask, Adobe reader). It's tough when you work with
id10ts.
I'm surprised system administrators even allow Adopey Acrobat on any workstations when there are readers out there like Foxit which don't leave components running when you close the program.
Well I have just downloaded hijackthis. Checking it out now ...
Yes, I use Foxit on my laptop and sometimes wonder why I bother with Adobe Professional on these PCs. Brokencrow I didn't mean disabling start-up items sounded complicated, it was phishphreek's comment about copying MSConfig from an XP machine to Win2k.
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Originally Posted by JPnyc
Software licensing. freeware for consumers is usually not free for corporations. The foxit licensing site even says that it is free for consumers, but corporations need to explain their usage.
We usually don't run any type of freeware/shareware or open source unless our software standards group approves the software first. It is much easier to get a free adobe reader on machines than try to get something like foxit approved in a large company.
We just had a major initiative to make sure that google maps is not installed on any corporate machines as google wants a pretty penny for the license on their software in our corporate network.
I can imagine google maps would in fact be installed on several machines as it's such a marvellous program! Foxit may not be good for corporations, but for the individual it's excellent.
Google Maps is total $1t€. I had the misfortune to use the crapware today.
Some scumbag broke into my gaff and broke a window in doing so (M$ were not responsible for the aforementioned window, BTW :p). So, I need to find someone who sells sheet glass cut to order.
This is a small town (pop.32,000) so there isn't a great deal of choice in specialist suppliers. However, I find that we have one, and their location.
Can't find where my wife has hidden my maps, so I think...... let's try the net...........
Hah! Google Maps............ that will do, thinks I.............. so it plots this course to the unknown destination............ turns out to be a 3 mile walk............ get there and buy my stuff, BUT my INS tells me that the Google Maps route was total bollix. I walk back a distance of about a mile............
For kiddies at school it might be OK, but for the real World it isn't. You have to pay for industrial strength applications. ;)
That was bad luck - but it's interesting to look at places, though I find they look blurred when you focus close in. Also, they aren't always up to date.
My pal there (the one you met with me in Blackpool) loves that program. He's been nagging me to download it since it first came out two years ago. I don't find it as fascinating as he does.
Oldie but goodie: http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm
There are all kinds of other places things are loaded...
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
\documents and settings\*\Start Menu\Programs\Start Menu\Startup
where the * is current user, all users, default user, etc
\autoexec.bat
And several others...
I met you and your pal in Blackpool??? News to me :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
No, I meant nihil :D