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Changing Windows 2000 startup programs

Sounds like you're a recent "convert" from the Win98 side. NT4 / W2K are pretty different from Win98. Items that start up in this OS are started as service or non-service processes.

You can control services that start up at boot time using the Services applet in Administrative tools. (You should do some careful investigation before you go poking around in there, though. You turn of the wrong thing, it can have all sorts of ramifications.)

With respect to non-service processes, you can control those by editing the registry, but I've found a utility that makes controlling them much easier. You can download Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel from http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml. (Note that the URL is case sensitive.) This utility is freeware, and it works like a charm. It comes in two forms, an executable form and a Control Panel applet form. I've only tested the Control Panel applet form, but have proved it to be extremely effective and reliable in NT4 (SP3 and above) and in W2K (with and without SP1).

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jim
 
msconfig does work it just gives you a bunch of errors at start up and then ends with the startup tab.
 
Gazza: Yup, that was my impression -- that MSCONFIG would work in W2K, after a fashion. Actually, though, I think Startup Control Panel handles the startup item chores much more nicely than MSCONFIG does. Besides not pelting the user with error messages in W2K, it separates the different types of startup files into their proper categories, instead of putting everything in a single window. And it lets you choose to either simply disable (uncheck) or delete (move to a special deleted, but not really gone window) each startup item.

ICyourNipple: I just wanted to add one more comment. I like the screen name. Probably makes a lot of people pause for a moment. 😀

Hope you get things sorted out to work the way you want them.

Regards,
Jim
 
just wanted to say thanks for the help! yea i just switched over from win98. i got sick of that pathetic OS crashing 2-3 times a day. i have been running win2k for about 2 weeks straight, i love it.
 
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