reg edit

Hi guys,
I recently took your advice to remove things I will not need in the start up menu and it worked great. But I seem to remember reading that there are a few things in there that should be allowed on start up Could you tell me which ones I need, to have on start up,as I went a bit mad once and took almost everything off.
Thanks.

 

Scanregistry
LoadPowerProfile (if you use power save features, there will be 2 of them)



Those are about the only 2 I would say need to be there, but some say that you should have systray as well.


Take a look at http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm for a pretty good list of msconfig items.

 

Gusman
These are the bare minimum. There may be other that you should let start in your startup group listed in Msconfig.
*statemgr (WinME only), systray, scanregistry, loadpowerprofiles (both), Tweakui if there, and any antivirus/firewall programs you have.
You could always go to Msconfig and take a screen shot of your startup list and let us look if there are others that should be checked.
Dave

 

You need scanregistry, and you need any like antivirus or video or sound programs that are needed.

If you are running ME then there are some that you need for ME. Check my site, I have a list of what most are and what they do.


http://www.rselby.com/Windows.html#6

 

Thanks guys, the only prob is, scan registry and load power profile are not there, they are in Run_Disabled in the registry. I dont quite know how they are there, but is it easy to get them back???. Also as I am new here, how do I take a screen shot and send it to you, I am not sure, is it just like copy and paste or a bit more?.
Thanks for your time.

 

OK, GUSMAN, instead of viewing them through regedit, go into msconfig. same w3ay, Start, Run, type in msconfig, hit enter. Click on Startup tab.


To take a screen shot, with the window you want to display active, press Alt + Print Scrn, then open an imaging software. Paint if you have no other. Right-click and Paste. Save it to your desktop, and when you reply, you just go below the reply box, and click the Browse button next to Attach.

 

When you uncheck something in msconfig > startup tab it is moved into the Run- folder in the registry. Checking it moves it back to the Run folder. This is how msconfig is used for convenient troubleshooting.

 

Have a look at this guys. I hope I did it right.

 

No you haven't, I'm afraid.

We see only half of your msconfig window. Please expand it so it fills the screen, and repost.

I think you may also have unchecked some things you shouldn't have...

 

ok guys, this is the best I can get it. it just misses the bottom one a bit which is "microsoft find fast", hope this helps. I see one on there "kremlin" I dont know what that is, whether it was on pc before I bought it, but I cannot find it in the registry to delete it. anyway let me know what you think.
Gus

 

Hi Gus,

Looks pretty good.

2 things though:

1) ScanRegistry is missing, and it should be there.
When you start your computer successfully, the Windows Registry Checker tool creates a backup of system files and registry configuration information, which you can restore in case your registry gets messed up.

Download the attached scanreg.txt, and save (rename) as scanreg.reg.

Doubleclick to have it merged into the registry.

2) You have a Zonealarm file there: Minilog.
Do i take it you no longer have ZoneAlarm installed?


Greetz,

 

3) You also have a required Norton Antivirus file unchecked there: Script blocking.

I suggest you recheck it.

Good luck,

 

Hope you haven't tried to run the reg file yet, for Windows would have refused it for not being a Registry script.

I forgot to remove the 'bold' tags on either end...
Duh!

It's safe to import now.

Greetz,

 

Guys, it is all sorted, thank you all for your help. It is nice to find people with the time to help others. I dont know a great deal, but I am good at central heating problems.Maybe I should start up my own website, lol. seriously tho thanks again.

 

It did refuse a few times tony but it went in the end, (must have been after you altered it). cheers.