Re: Can't Get Rid Of System Config Utility Entry
DaffyD® wrote:
| Just for the record, SCU is the System Configuration Utility aka
| msconfig. And a thanks to you and a "duh" to me. The item was in the
| Disabled Startup folder on the Startup menu. I would have never
| thought to have looked there. It did the trick.
Glad to hear it. (OK, that's right, it's in the title of the MSConfig
requestor. Sheesh, yea.)
| "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote in message
| news:OjvSXmZKIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
|> DaffyD® wrote:
|> | I deleted Adobe Photoshop and the disabled Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
|> | still shows in the startup window in the SCU. I checked and it's
|> | not in the Common Programs file on the C drive (as shown in
|> | Startup), nor is this file in HKLM in the registry. Where in the
|> | registry to you go to remove these "phantoms? Do I have to
|> | reinstall the original program and then delete it again? How do
|> | you delete disabled items that are not shown in the registry?
|>
|> What is the SCU? I've looked even in 3 mouse holes & couldn't find
|> one! If you mean it still shows in "MSConfig, Startup tab", then...
|>
|> If you have an item in "MSConfig, Startup tab" duplicated, but one is
|> checked & the other(s) are not, check them all & click "Apply, OK".
|> It will ask that you reboot. Answer "No". You will be left with just
|> one, if they were true duplicates. "Then you should either uninstall
|> the programs you don't want loaded or use their setup/config
|> programs to disable the parts you don't want loaded", says Richard
|> G. Harper (MVP MPS-D). But if it doesn't work, or you have an
|> unchecked one without a duplicate, then...
|>
|> MSConfig keeps it in Startup, just in case you want to check it
|> again. It has not been loaded to run, as Ctrl-Alt-Del shows. It has
|> been moved to a Minus (-) Key in the Registry. To remove it from the
|> Registry, you may navigate to the Key, and delete the entry under
|> it. That will also remove it from MSConfig Startup, where you will
|> no longer be able to check it. It's probably under one of these Keys:
|>
|> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-
|> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-
|>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
|> -
|> ^... That minus sign wrapped away from "RunServices-".
|>
|> Also here:
|> "C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\Disabled Startup Items"
|> "START, Run, Win.ini". Delete any 'norun' entries under the [Windows]
|> section.
|>
|> You would navigate to each key, by clicking the plus signs in the
|> left pane. When you see "Run-", click it and look in the right pane,
|> for what looks like the one your looking for. R-Clk it in the right
|> pane and select "delete". However, first: "Registry menu, Export
|> Registry File". This will create a .reg file of that Minus Key,
|> which you may run (by clicking) to undo the delete you are about to
|> do. All of that can more easily be done with
|>
http://www.pcmag.com/ ' RegEdit+, which has a customizable
|> "Favorites" list, which includes those Minus Keys. It also has
|> automatic "undo". Registry Detective is another worthy program
|> freely downloadable there. StartupCop may really be what you need,
|> also there.
|>
|> Watch out, keep the LoadPowerProfiles, and, I guess, any virus
|> scanner duplicates.
|>
|> --
|> | { : [|]=( DaffyD®
|> |
|> | If I knew where I was I'd be there now.
|>
|> --
|> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> Should things get worse after this,
|> PCR
|>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net