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(This happend apparantely of its own accord, I cannot think of a single thing I have done between that time and the last time I used my computer that could the way I did this was I went into my run/msconfig then I changed the "load devices" settings (there are three) around, and eventually one of them got my

Strange Pause.
Has this happend to anyone else??? When I have 2 Office 97 products opened (ie Word and Access, or Access and Access, etc), my open file dialog boxes are However, if I try to load Windows using a 'Selective Startup' (in msconfig) and choose not to load any files at startup, then it still loads slowly.

Explorer.exe Crashes
Not to sound ingnorant but, I am not completely sure what happend before hand. The entire computer started to lock up one day as it was booting up (just as all of the short- cut icons appeared on screen). A friend helped me "uncheck" some programs in the "msconfig" that were booting up when the computer was turned

FP 2002 freezes when I go to preview in Browser
What could have happend? To make the machine work at all i rebooted and started in safemode. I dissabled all autostart-programs with msconfig and now I have tried to enable them one by one in order to find a cause for the freeze. No luck... I have run scandisk in boot and everthing else I can think of.

Not enough system resources while attempting to print
... the green activity bar just froze in the middle of the screen for like 25 secs or more. this never happend before and I hate it alot, I have downloaded boot A few things here. Ensure, if after all the above is done and if it is still running slow, that what is running at startup in MSCONFIG is necessary.

How to delete an icon & program link from the Taskbar?
Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news:uwa84EHMFHA.3788@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl, Carl G <cgerving@ecenetDOTcom> hunted and pecked: Hi All I just got through doing a fresh clean install of windows XP Pro, just about everything went great. This is the first time this has ever happend to me. When i go to MSCONFIG,

System Configuration Utility
Lonny lonnyjone...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsme systemtools This just happend to me the other day and an MVP helped. I guess youve used a system restore point recently and it was the first time since then you open'd msconfig (and added or uninstalled something)? post you're Environmental Variables here

Windows 98SE Shotdown Problems
Kelly ke...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp customize Hi Marc, Go to Start/Run and type in: msconfig. Go to the Startup Tab and uncheck accordingly. Then run this script to remove the disabled Hi, I don't know how it happend but via the internet a unidentified program has installed it selve into my taskbar.

Office 97: slow open dialog forms
Click start > run > and in the box type msconfig and press ok. On the startup tab of the program that opens up, untick the programs name. You will then need to find out how to uninstall it to Hi, I don't know how it happend but via the internet a unidentified program has installed it selve into my taskbar.

Display can only get 16 colours
Went into msconfig looked in the Startup section found Bridge in the Starup list clicked the box OFF and rebooted. I have no idea why this would come up and it just happend last week. I looked on the microsoft website and found nothing like this and just happened to click to this part of the site.

system startup-task man and msconfig don't work
Also run MSConfig.exe and disable MDM.exe and look for anything else that you might not need at startup The one machine that I have running Windows ME, Numerous times this has happend, FP/IE ends up sending the "fault" message to Microsoft - but I've yet to see a solution on their "updates" pages,

missing fonts
Any more ideas? This has happend everytime I boot from the very first time I set this computer up. Thanks David. -----Original Message----- Try this: Run msconfig (Start, Run, type msconfig, OK). Go to the Startup tab, uncheck everything, hit Apply, OK, re- boot as instructed, see if problem goes away.

Display-cannot change settings, I beg you to help
I thought I'd check msconfig to see what was in start up because my startup folder is empty. When I tried to load it, nothing happend, then when I ctrl+a+del the task man would pop for just a sec, and then close all by itself. I'd keep doing it but each time it would close. I don't do piracy and I don't have kazaa

Missed programs at Start up
[[When you open System Configuration Utility [MSCONFIG], Registry Editor or Task Manager, they flash for a second and quit. carl-alt-delete but nothing opens. i tryed pressing on the taskbar and click on task manager but nothing what happend and how can i fix it please -- Kobi Adato www.danvillebeautysupply.com.

exe. file ? ..... SPYWARE
Dave Fitzgerald DaveF...@worldnet.att.net alt windows98 You may want to "run" "msconfig" and go to the startup tab to see what programs are loading on start up and running I just don't know how this could have happend all of a sudden. I used to be able to leave the computer on for days and everything was fine.

Missing prima.exe
I also tried to get into there via msconfig in the run window and absolutely nothing happened except an hourglass for about 1.5 seconds. I already tried accessing these programs in the system folder and the same thing happend. If anyone could tell me how to get these windows to open and stay open I would be greatly

Some info boxes too small to read all info
So, it's not autoexec.bat, config.sys, system.ini, win.ini, or any of the startup group items, since I disabled all of those in msconfig, and there was no change I'm sure something happend during the deactivation of GoBack (which does link into the boot record of the hard drive, in order to load before the OS),

printer slows system down
Word would crash on initialization, excel would crash on exit and the rules wizard died in outlook. This happend on two separate computers. A very nice person gave me a URL that had a copy of MSCONFIG for Win 2K. Unfortunately since then my hard drive went to the great pc in the sky and I require the same bit

Window's Shutdown
Thomas Tootle toot...@m33access.com alt comp periphs mainboard asus AAJ wrote: Same thing happend on my system ! I haven't figured out the problem yet. It was a complicated deinstall using registry edit, msconfig and going to each drive and removing it. Try a google search. I'm about to build a machine using

registry or autoexe problems? Eargent!!!
I have 6 program load with windows start up When i turned the windows on today i found only 4 The other 2 program already loaded into the memory but Can't see them in the taskbar. i tried "msconfig" Disabled All start up processes and enabled them again. Nothing happend still have the same program.