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johnnymk
11-04-2004, 06:45 AM
The one which which shows the processes running and can be permanently changed. Not the one from Ctrl-ALT-Del. I somehow found it the other day but can't find it now.

There are 56 programs running in the background when I am online and there should only be about 16. I have to manually delete them before I go online or else I have a hard time going from site to site.
Cantacuzene
11-04-2004, 06:50 AM
start> Run> msconfig
johnnymk
11-04-2004, 07:28 AM
start> Run> msconfig

I tried that yesterday and nothing pops up. As a matter of fact, nothing pops up no matter what I type in Run. maybe my DOS is corrupted?

There was a definte Startup menu available when I found it the other day.
SmokeyDP
11-04-2004, 07:42 AM
Did you try running AdAware ?
billxp
11-04-2004, 08:12 AM
Right click on My Computer then Manage then Services & Application then Services
johnnymk
11-04-2004, 10:14 AM
Right click on My Computer then Manage then Services & Application then Services

When I right click Manage, nothing happens. Somethimg must really be messed up.
bbrian
11-04-2004, 02:00 PM
Start-run- regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
most of the startup apps will be there or here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

If you can't run regedit, you're toast... however you might try CTRL-SHIFT-ESC and end-task on unkown stuff to see if maybe you have some spyware/trojan keeping you from running these apps.