10-10-2003, 06:08 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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what OS?
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10-10-2003, 06:23 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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home or pro
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10-10-2003, 06:37 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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i dunno much about home ed. but from what i've seen from a quick google, you can try running it in safe mode under an admin acct.
(of course search your c:\windows for the excecutable first)
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10-10-2003, 07:47 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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I run XP home edition and msconfig works fine, I use it fairly often.
I run it under an Administrator account, but I don't know if that's neccesary. But it's at least there.
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10-10-2003, 09:51 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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msconfig is a win9x program they do not have it in win2k/xp
what do you need it for?
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10-10-2003, 10:30 AM | #12 (permalink) | |
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Start->Run->msconfig, and up pops 'System Configuration Utility'. I'm running WinXP Home Edition on a brand new laptop, not upgraded from a previous version of Windows or anything. I've used it and tweaked it numerous times in XP, it does exactly what it should.
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10-10-2003, 10:56 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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it's not on win2k, but it was brought back in XP.
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10-10-2003, 03:36 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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oops realized this was a response to Mr Defloks question, not Brewmaniacs
http://greenstuff.decoder.com.au/msconfig2k.htm Last edited by charliex; 10-10-2003 at 04:13 PM.. |
10-10-2003, 04:01 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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I want to use the 'System Configuration Utility' Moskie is talking about. I'd like to control what is running.
I have eleminated the sign on screen and should be the adm. since I'm the only user.
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10-10-2003, 04:18 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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my msconfig.exe is at
C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\msconfig.exe its 142 KB (145,408 bytes) and version 5.1.2600.1106 yours might have been corrupted either pull it off the windows XP cd or see if you have a C:\windows\i386\msconfig.ex_ and use extract to get it out. that link i posted may have the latest one too. charlie |
10-10-2003, 05:32 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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hmm have you tried searching for it under search? in Win2k that was the only way of finding it. You couldn't bring up msconfig through the run command but after searching for it in your X:/Windows folder you might find the executable. From there it's easy you'll be able to click on it and see if it is corrupted or not. I'm running XP Pro right now and you are able to get msconfig by simply typing it in the run command just as you would in Win 9x and Me, haven't tried it in XP Home, but I'm pretty sure it should work.
But hope isn't over yet... Have you updated to the most recent update? If you're registered you'd be able to get an automatic update, the reason i say this is because i just did a search on it and found msconfig in the following directory C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 so yeah, you need to update XP, try it and let us know. Oh, one more thing you can probably try to copy the .exe file from another computer with the same OS ofcourse, not sure if any other version of OS would work, but try that and maybe you'll be able to access the configuration system. (that's if you're unable to update, be it that you might have a pirated version or something) let us know
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10-10-2003, 10:35 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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For Win2k if you want msconfig you have to download the msconfig.exe from a xp machine and put it in your c:\windows\system32 folder and when you do that you can just type msconfig in run and it will work just like it does in 98 and XP
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10-11-2003, 07:07 AM | #24 (permalink) | |
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Here's a screen shot of my search results, It shows msconfig.exe but I am hesitant to mess with it without good direction. Thanks all for your suggestions!
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10-11-2003, 07:27 AM | #25 (permalink) | |
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i found a site with hopefully helpful info yesterday when i was googling on this ... (which of course i wonder if you tried google yet... ) http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm obviously, make sure you know what a service does before disabling it. and let us know what you've tried already.
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10-11-2003, 10:24 AM | #27 (permalink) |
Junkie
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i see what your problem is.
go to start / run menu type cmd (then press enter) when the cmd prompt opens (likely c:\windows) type this exactly del c:\windows\system32\msconfig.exe exit (making sure it did delete it) be very careful to type exactly that and nothing else, it should allow you to delete that file, if not boot into safe mode and do it from there. Or browse to c:\windows\system32\ and delete the msconfig.exe file, that'll probably be a lot easier and safer |
10-11-2003, 04:41 PM | #29 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: North Hollywood
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nothing, just delete it, its a rogue file thats probably left over from another install, its also completely useless since its 0 bytes, hence the corrupt exe warning, whats happening is, that instead of running the correct one in the health directory, its attempting to run the corrupted one, deleting it will allow windows to get to the correct one.
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10-11-2003, 07:49 PM | #30 (permalink) |
Devils Cabana Boy
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http://www.mlin.net/files/StartupCPL.zip
this little program will do wht you want, it looks at all the places that files start up and list them out in an easy to view setting after you instal it, it will be in your control panel under startup
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