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"In Windows 2000 and Windows 9x, there was no embedded support, but there are tools available."

If I understand you correctly, are you saying that msconfig.exe is not available in those versions of Windows? If so, then I would have to disagree. I have used msconfig in both Win98 and WinXP. It is not available in Win2k and Win95, though.

Posted by: Danny at October 19, 2003 8:39 AM

Leo wrote:
> For years I ran a free download utility also called Startup Cop which was published in a PC Magazine article.
http://www.pchelp911.com/files/startcop.zip
http://mentor.creighton.edu/coolstuff/Win98/Start_Up_Cop/startcop.zip
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=startcop.zip

Danny wrote:
> I have used msconfig in both Win98 and WinXP. It is not available in Win2k and Win95, though.

msconfig for Win2K:
http://www.insideproject.com/downloads/msconfig2k/msconfig.zip [72 KB]

Ger's System Configuration Utility (a clone of msconfig) for Win95:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?16000000036301

Posted by: Mark Odell at January 24, 2004 10:06 PM

There's an excellent and free tool to see and modify the startup programs. It's called Startup Control Panel and is at http://mlin.net/ . You can add it to your other control panels or run as a regular program.

Posted by: Roger at February 7, 2004 3:10 PM

i agreed that win 98 has msconfig

Posted by: pavel at April 15, 2004 7:09 AM

Not sure if anyone can help me, but I need to disable wizards for both adaware and pop-up stoppers that appear during every single start up of my pc. They appeared after I downloaded a fileshare program through kazaa and so far I think I've tried absolutely EVERYTHING to get rid of them. Have Windows 2000, so unable to run msconfig. Any ideas? :(

Posted by: lisa at May 18, 2004 2:56 AM

A spyware cleaner like Spybot Search and Destroy, or AdAware should clean you right up. Links on my recommendations pages: http://recommend.pugetsoundsoftware.com

Posted by: Leo at May 18, 2004 8:18 AM

can any one explain abt HDD password?

Posted by: pavel at June 1, 2004 4:46 AM

You'll have to be a little more complete. What HDD password? Where are you seeing this?

Posted by: Leo at June 1, 2004 9:30 AM

whenever i login to my use account in my network, my computer using windows2000NT shows a popup message reg678.dll missing. How to solve this problem?
Moreover, when i login IE automatically opens up. How to stop it. If i remove from startup, can i use IE after i login. Most of time when i login it fails to run the network script and i am not able to acess the net via my organisation network. I need to boot again and it takes two three trials to get it done. how to fix it.
thax for ur help in advance

Posted by: krish at July 20, 2004 5:58 PM

reg678.dll is the result of a virus. Your other symptoms feel like spyware. You should get updated anti-virus and anti-spyware software and databases, and scan. Recommendations: http://ask-leo.com/d-recommend

Posted by: Leo at July 20, 2004 8:36 PM

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