Startup Programs

[Stacka]

Where can I find out which programs are starting up when I reboot windows? I want to edits these so I can reboot faster.

 

[jasonzhang]

use
msconfig

 

[fadirocks]

msconfig for windowsXp otherwise you can find it from Registry
look in [hkey blah blah] i.e. located in many of em in
Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run & RunOnce open each one and you can see what's there

Other way that you can disable but not delete them using spybot search and destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/
in the advanced mode you can check for the running programs at startup also you can clean up your system from spywares too heh!

 

[su root]

If you are using XP, or 9x, then click start / run / type msconfig

If you are using windows 2000, that command wasn't included, so look in your start menu, under Startup, and 2 places in your registry: (click start / run / type regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run

 

[Ravsitar]

If you're running XP go to microsoft and download a program called bootvis. It'll reorganise the boot order to make your computer boot faster. Also check out black viper's service config here:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm