Change or Remove Applications from Start-Up

Posted on June 3rd, 2007
by Lisa Stewart: : Better Rankings By Blogging

Win9x/Me/2K/XP users:

Use the “System Configuration Utility” (MSCONFIG) to identify startup programs. MSCONFIG is available for all Win9x/Me/2K/XP users (Win95/2K user can use the respective versions from here).

You invoke it by clicking Start then Run. In the Open box, type msconfig.exe followed by enter. Once displayed, click on the “Startup” tab. You will see a list of items and the 2 columns that we’re interested in are “Name” (WinME) or “Startup Item” (WinXP) and “Command”. For Win98 the columns aren’t named but the one on the left is the equivalent of “Name” and the one on the right is the equivalent of “Command”:

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