-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Of list Re: Interesting entries in mscofig startup

Cool!!   Thanks Mike.
   Regards from

 Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:07:02 -0700, Mike the mod wrote:
|  Hi Ray fellow mods,
|  you may want to suggest/look at Sysinternals
|
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|  4c49-8120-c47 c5a693683.aspx>
|
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|  =-
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|
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|  IHTH
|
|  Mike
|
|  *******  REPLY SEPARATOR *********
|
|  On 5/30/2008 at 10:52 PM Gman wrote:
|
|  See below, below?      :O)
|
|  Peace,
|  G
|
|  "The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked"
|
|  ----- Original Message -----
|  From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
|  To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|  Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:21 PM
|  Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Interesting entries in mscofig startup
|
|
| |  See below
| |
| |  ----- Original Message -----
| |  From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
| |  To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| |  Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 6:43 PM
| |  Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Interesting entries in mscofig
| |  startup
| |
| |
| | |  Don,
| | |  Background Info:  MSCONFIG has no way to verify the location
| | |  of anything
| | |  it shows in the Startup tab.  It is only reporting the items
| | |  that it is "supposed" to run on bootup.  If you were to move
| | |  one of the exe files
| | |
|  it
| | |  is
| | |  showing, it can still show up as a supposedly fully
| | |  functioning member
| | |
|  of
| | |  this group of startup items.  However, if you move/remove
| | |  the startup into
| | |  itself, it will affect the way that entry is shown within
| | |  the Startup tab.
| | |  Seeing a listing without any worthwhile info obviously hints
| | |  hard that there is a problem with that entry.
| | |
| |
| |  *****
| |  msconfig reports what (and where) it has been told should load
| |  at
| |
|  startup.
| |  This is obviously not a complete list of everything that starts
| |  at
| |
|  startup
| |  and equally obvious it does not mean that everything listed
| |  will actually start.  Do I have that right? *****
|
|
|  Correct on all counts.  It's on a need to know basis and it's
|  knowledge is extremely limited.
|
|
|  S N I P
|
|
|  The only way to answer your original question is to eliminate
|  everything that they are not.  This entire exercise is meant to do
|  just that.  To me, it's more effort than it's worth (I've done
|  similar exercises before), but there's a whole lot of learning to
|  be had.  The choice to persue the ends is
|  all yours.  On the other hand, have you tried the reinstall yet?
|  It may make all of this moot.
|
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