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Published on March 20, 2008 By BigDogBigFeet In Personal Computing

Hi all, 

Well as a result of Po's thread Virtual Memory Question I've discovered that when I click on start, run and type in msconfig and press enter ...... nothing happens.  I fired up explorer and searched my windows sub, no go and did a system Search twice and again no go.  Did some web searching and discovered one of 2 possibilities an installed app has it hidden from my through a system key setting or in the worst case malware.  At present I'm not suspecting malware.  System has no other problems currently and it's possible any of these progs could have it hidden: Ad-Aware 2007 Free, SpyBot Search and Destroy (I'm new to both of these) I also have Tune-Up Utilities 2006 and please don't gasp, Norton System Works(well mostly, lol).

Anywho, I thought I'd post to see if anyone has some insight as to what's caused this and what Reg Key(s) might be involved.  I'm thinking that's probably what's happened.


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on Mar 22, 2008
Is there a way to keep it from starting up at all when I boot?


is msconfig working for you now po? un tick ituneshelper and quicktime in start up..
on Mar 22, 2008
Find the process as Big Dog Big Feet has said and then go to your msconfig and look at the startup for the program in the command area is where it will show the file it is starting to run that process. Uncheck it and restart your computer.

SGT  
on Mar 22, 2008
is msconfig working for you now po? un tick ituneshelper and quicktime in start up


It's working.
I did that. I've never used it before. I got all these pop-ups...Restart for change to take effect, etc. When I rebooted I got the 'running in diagnostic or user set mode' stuff. I wasn't sure if this was safe or not, so I turned them back on.

I have reinstalled all my SD app's.
Bootskin
Log On
Desktop Gadgets
DesktopX
Windowblinds and Skinstudio6
Icon Packager and Developer
IconX
SounPackager
ObjectBar
RightClick
Theme Manger
I rebooted after each install.
Updated to pre-release versions of
Windowblinds
DesktopX
and Object Edit
re-booted
Everything running goo. MSCONFIG still working. Defrag works. Nothing vanishing on me so far.
on Mar 22, 2008
Cool glad to hear it PO!

SGT  
on Mar 22, 2008
it's safe to do po, hasn't hurt me yet!
on Mar 22, 2008
it's safe to do po, hasn't hurt me yet!


Okay, but it's running in an other but normal mode, right? When I re-boot after making changes, I get the pop-up. There is a box to check, so that the pop-up doesn't coma up again. Do I just check that?

While I'm here...I'm almost done with all this reformatting, etc. Questions..
Do I leave the setting to compress all files on disk on?
Do I allow for Indexing? (I heard this just uses more resources and doesn't make any noticeable difference when on.)
on Mar 22, 2008
Do I just check that?


yes

Do I allow for Indexing?


yes

Do I leave the setting to compress all files on disk on?


what???????
on Mar 22, 2008
what???????


Sorry. Do I want to use the Compress Drive To Save Disk Space' setting?

*got rid of three more add-ons. Is that better?
on Mar 22, 2008
If you're talking about the Windows Compression tool, leave it OFF.

*got rid of three more add-ons. Is that better?


atta boy....keep going
on Mar 22, 2008
That's up to you on the compression, Po'. It'll only smoosh down (technical terminology) the files you don't use a lot, and if you do need to use them, it only takes a couple of milliseconds to uncompress them.
on Mar 22, 2008
If you're talking about the Windows Compression tool, leave it OFF.


Wait. Why? I'd always been told it was fine.
on Mar 22, 2008
If you're talking about the Windows Compression tool, leave it OFF.


I guess that's it. When you click on your drice and click properties...at the bottom it gives you the option to compress files and allow for indexing.

Thanks.
on Mar 22, 2008
Why? I'd always been told it was fine.


It was fine when the biggest HD out there was 1/10mb's. Now it's virtually unlimited....why waste the time and performance it takes to perform an un-needed process
on Mar 22, 2008
Anyone post a solution yet for how to fix this problem? (no msconfig visible)
on Mar 22, 2008
Big dog see my reply at 62
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