[Solved] Windows 95 is now doing something, er, annoying...

[shelley]

Since installing and uninstalling an application I now get a dialogue box on completion of Windows boot which says ~

"Windows 95 is now setting up the following items"
[nothing is listed but I assume it's referring to items in systray]

How do I turn this message off?

 

[telecom69]

Not exactly rushing to help on this one are they Shelley I dont think you can just turn it off though,looks to me like the uninstall of that application wasnt very good for some reason can you not re-install it and uninstall again failing any tech guy help?....

 

[shelley]

Because of various problems with the application I installed/uninstalled several times. The application had that dratted C_dilla registration program attached to it which you can never totally get rid of, though I'm not sure whether this is responsible in this case.

The application, by the way, if it helps, was Autocad 2000.

 

[telecom69]

Well Im not a tech guy Shelley but get by and if you want to try a free trial un-installer go to www.alphasoftware.com you never know it could do the trick and with tech guy assistance a bit thin on the ground for you its worth a try ....Bob

 

[telecom69]

Another un-installer rated very highly by Pc magazine is available for download from www.quarterdeck.com its called cleansweep ....

 

[~Candy~]

Hi Shelley, why don't you try re-installing it (do a minimum re-install), reboot a couple of times, then go to the control panel, add/remove programs and un-install it again.

 

[telecom69]

Well Shelley lady luck has smiled on you, you have now got the number one Techlady on board so never fear the end is near best of luck..... Bob

 

[shelley]

Hi AcaCandy, telecom69. Thanks for the input. I feel I must have re-installed, rebooted, add/removed the program many times; even tried to eradicate it via the registry. No joy. I'll give it another go and then download one of the uninstallers mentioned, then let you know how I got on. The popup box doesn't threaten my life, but it does threaten my sanity!

 

[shelley]

Hi all, thought I'd bring you some cheer and bring all up to date with this one.

I installed minimally and uninstalled once more, no joy. I intended to download one of those uninstallers mentioned but couldn't find the one from Quarterdeck. Instead I used another called Ashampoo. Not easy to use but it didn't clear the message anyway.

As it is, I am now using AutoCad on a regular basis (to keep a client happy) so uninstalling the software is no longer an option.

Is it still possible to stop the pop up box appearing? It may be that it has nothing to do with AutoCad and something else is causing it to appear. How would I know?

 

[Rollin' Rog]

The individual who posted for this same problem in Google>groups identified the key named below. We can have a look and delete it if it is there.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q="[email protected]

To do so, go to start, run regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

With RunOnce highlighted look in the RIGHT hand pane for something that corresponds to your problem. Normally there would be no entry at all there. If you find one, just right click on it in the right hand pane and delete.

You can also examine the other Run keys nearby for anything suspicious. If you are unsure of whether to delete something, click on Registry> Export and save the key to the desktop before doing a deletion. Double clicking it later will merge it back to the registry if you made a mistake.

 

[telecom69]

Ok Shelley well RollinRog has given you something to try and he usually comes up trumps when the going gets rough,but if you want a programme to stop all pop-ups appearing try this one called aptly pop-up stopper www.panicware.com best of luck Bob ....

 

[shelley]

Rollin' Rog, I luuuurve you!

Looked for said key but the file was only occupied by Name (Default) Data (value not set). However, next door, in 'Run' I found this ~

mdac_runonce "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\runonce.exe"

Deleting this seems to have done the trick.

Bob ~ I looked at this but it only seemed to be for blocking pop-ups on the 'net, not generated by Windows (unless I misread the notes).

Thanks again to all who helped me have a annoyance-free Xmas!

 

[Rollin' Rog]

That was the baby It got placed in the wrong run key and so remained when it shouldn't have.