Stopping A Program Upon Startup - Computer Bootsup
Jun 19, 2005How do I prevent "Windows Messenger" from starting when my computer boots up?
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View 7 RepliesI've got windows XP and want to stop some things running when I boot windows. I've tried running MSCONFIG and un-ticking programs in the startup tab. Next time I boot the same programs still load. When I looked in MSCONFIG again the programs were un-ticked, but if I scroll down they have all appeared again ticked. Can anyone help me cause I've got some pretty pointless things starting that slow my PC down?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhenever I restart my computer, Blackberry Desktop Manager pops up during the startup process. How can I make it so that it doesn't?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'd seen some discussions in this group about removing icons from the systray but that requires stopping the program from being executed by Startup using the 'msconfig' command.Is there a method/program of removing the icon from systray but leave the associated program running? Unfortunately, the program I'm running doesn't have an option to remove it from systray.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI used to have Windows Vista on my computer, but I decided to install XP onto my computer (Dual-boot). While XP is a lot more quicker and stable than Windows Vista, I have to admit that there were some things from Vista that I much more preferred over some of the things XP did.So, my question is... is there a way to change the Windows Explorer of XP to resemble the Vista Windows Explorer? I don't mean in the sense of Aero-looking graphics, I mean the shortcuts at the side and the bar that tells you what folder you are in and such. What I'm referring to is circled in blue in this picture.
View 4 Replies View RelatedEverytime i download someone that isnt minute the download stops completely at a random point, sometimes 45%, 67%, 89% etc.It was working fine a week ago but since then i've tried everyday and it's been the same.I'm connected using a wireless aerial to a belkin router. but as i said everything was fine until a week ago.
View 3 Replies View Relatedmy son has been shutting down the computer recently from his account while i have been logged on. I have been downloading programs and such that i want to finish as quickly as possible, thus the comp needs to stay on. Is there a way to lock the computer from shutting down or something?
View 6 Replies View Relatedwhen i try to update msn messenger my internet explorer just stops workin, something to do with the active x? it also does it when i try and download the macromedia player8 as i explained in my klast thread.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to up date microsoft when it gets to the update site it connects and comes up microsoft is checking to see if you have the active x to update it freezes.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I bring up the computer I have several boot menu's that appear, how do stop them. I have compaq, acer, window XP and the welcome screen. How do I get the start menu to come up only.
View 18 Replies View Relatedmy computer is sooo slow - i have a p3 which takes ages to work. i keep pressing ctrl alt del to stop some of the processes which arent necessary but i thought i should ask here the importance of each task so that i keep the imp ones and get rid of the unimp ones. so can anyone advise which one needs to keep and ones i can do without? id like to get rid of whatever i dont need.
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy Favourites now contain hundreds of entries because it is somehow automatically adding them without me specifically doing so. I presume there is a way of stopping this. Does anybody know how?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow can I start a program on Windows startup and set the window of the programm always on top. That means that no other program which starts as well on startup, can set his window activ. Just my program should always be on top.Is that possible with a VBScript?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen i start my computer up, it will come up with the screen C:ProgramFilesYahooSearch and i have looked in msconfig in Startup to see if it's labled there but it isn't. Is there anyway i can get this to quit coming up?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a Dimension 4700 and I was recently going through my add/remove programs list trying to clean up and get rid of some programs I didn't use anymore(like google earth, partypoker, etc) and I came across Yahoo Download Manager and figured I didn't need it and right when I clicked remove my computer shuts down, I am not sure how anything in this would have that kind of effect on my computer from removing, or if it was just a coincidence. I go to reboot it and get the blue screen error message Stop C000021a and below gives me another error- f 0xc0000135.
View 10 Replies View RelatedIm having a bit of an anoying problem with it, it will randomly hang completely requiring reboot when i open programs, there is no pattern to what programs it hangs on, they are all different types, and it only hangs on them sometimes (there are a few it hangs on every time) ... The computer is overclocked somewhat, however i tryed taking the processor back to its 'out of box' speed and it still happens (it happened a couple of times before i even overclocked i noticed) so it can't be anything to do with that, i don't think..
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhenever i start up my dell 4600 I get the following:SATA Primary drive 0 not found
SATA Secondary drive 0 not found initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 4.1.06
PXE 2.1 Build 083 (WfM 2.0), RPL V2.74 Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility i just reformatted the HDD the other day and have been getting this message
XP made it more confusing with what you can/should/don't need to run. what's the difference between what's in your Startup and what's in Services running and what would be safe/not safe to either delete or close?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhenever I startup my computer C:Program Files opens on its own. I've seen other posts where others have a similar situation with the My Documents folder opening. I have tried the methods for correcting that issue but nothing has worked so far.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter running HDD Regenerator on an external drive with some bad sectors, it seemed to fix thatdrive & is usable.But Now.i cannot get rig of the HDD Regenerator program popping up at startup & every time I turn on or pluggin an external drive.I have un-installed it, Run CCleaner, deleted everything I can find related to it in the registry, tried.disabling it in the start up menu.but nothing seems to stop this Beast from popping up its "Install Wizard" & blocking my Hard Drives from opening properly.Any ideas?Also, Since I used this app.none of my hard drive are accessible via "My Computer"every time I try to open them.I get the "Command Prompt Window"The particular PC I am having the problems with is not virus infected & has Never seen a second on the internet & has been running perfectly until I installed this HDD Regenerator.
View 8 Replies View RelatedHow can I improve the startup speed pf Windows as it takes forever and a day to start and to access any programmes. I have run defragmenter but report tells me defragmenting not required.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow do you remove a hidden "StartUp program", like the one shown below? I need to remove it from my system. WinPatrol doesn't even detect it, so I can't remove that hidden program/file with WinPatrol. Is there a program that is made to detect hidden files like this (see below): I believe the program is actually part of the .NET Framework 2.0 (Service pack 1), which was installed on my computer, yesterday. I want to remove it & all of it's components if one of it's components is the exact same file I'm having trouble finding & removing from my list of StartUp programs. Is there a safe program that can detect & remove .NET Frameworks & other "hard to remove" files?
Computer is all of a sudden very slow. When I did a computer check for information regarding software, I found that many strange software files run automatically at startup. When I checked "msconfig", I only found 24 programs starting at startup which were normal. How do I eliminate these strange files. I don't know which one of these are necessary and I don't know how to eliminate them. They appear as "unknown". One example of a startup file is "zipfldr". There are pages of other ones.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhenever I startup my laptop, the "C:Program FilesDell" folder opens automatically. I've had this pc for years but this started happening only recently. I don't know what could've changed, but it is very annoying and I need to find a way to make it stop. I've been searching various sites all over the net, and so far I have tried messing with "msconfig" and "Regedit.exe," among other things, and the problem still exists. Please contact me if anyone knows how to resolve this issue.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm not really fluent in M$. I have a couple of programs that load at boot time
that really should wait until the OS / Drivers / Support programs are loaded to
start. Is there any easy way to delay execution until the OS is ready to run?It curently is running from a registry entry and starts too early. It always fails,
and I have to terminate it, and restart it once the system is able to interact with me.it appears that Windows XP logs in users before its really ready to
interact with them?
I recently installed and then uninstalled Symantec PC Anywhere. However, when I start windows now I get an error message from Symantec PCAnywhere Update utility telling me that the program is not installed locally so the updater won't run.How do I remove this updater and stop it from trying to run at Windows startup? I've heard of running MSCONFIG from Start -> Run... but that doesn't seem to work on XP.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi have a problem that i cant open my windows as when i log on the desktop doesnt load up except task manager when i searched for explorer.exe it was missed i have restore it throug the win xp cd the windows back to live but there is some thing can be noticed in this photo!!:i cant open any folder or any thing
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've just had to install my machine after a major malfunction. It's running fine now, but everytime I install a new program, when I restart the machine, all the newly installed programs' folders pop up (e.g. showing the uninstall and help links in the program's particular folder; it usually happens with new software just the once) - and it's getting ridiculous. I have to close each folder one by one.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have an issue with my new clean install on XP. Every time I boot, C:Program Files keps opening. Here is the stuff I have tried so far. I looked in msconfig, the startup folder and in Startup on my programs list and it doesn't show up in any of these places. It isn't a new program, so it's not because I installed it recently. Here is HiJack This log for reference. I dont have clue what's to look in this. But may be it will help you. Similarly I have copy-pasted contents from autoexec.bat,win.ini and sys.ini for debugging. You may notice that there is TaskMgr link in startup. But its just one of my app I need on startup in my taskbar. It startup as minimized and it has setting "Hide on Minimized" checked in TaskManager. So It remains in taskbar always.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 8:44:33 PM, on 10/14/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16544)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
D:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe...............
When I start my computer I get a blue screen that says, Is delete program not found - skipping Autocheck. Not sure if it is a I or 7 in front of the delete but either way after that the system starts normally. How do I get rid of that blue screen warning?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell Dimension C521, running windows xp media center edition, for the last two days when I start it up, I have a box on my desktop with a program path C:ProgramFilesDell with nothing in the box. How can I get rid of this error on my desktop??? I can click on the red X and it will go away, until I start it up again.
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