Where oh where is my msconfig.exe?

Do I still have it and it's been hidden by an installed app or is something else going on?

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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106

vStyler

on Mar 23, 2008

Ok.. To who it concerns..The problem is Icon Packager.

I uninstalled the version I had, not sure which one.. was off the private server.

Problem fixed. MSCONFIG working, Camtasia, working.

Solved.!!

WOW, and I reformatted twice over this.

107

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 23, 2008

Ok.. To who it concerns..The problem is Icon Packager

Ya that's the one I flagged in my email to Stardock. Impulse isn't installing it correctly or IP isn't stable or a combination thereof.

108

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 23, 2008

WOW, and I reformatted twice over this

I pity you. Reformatting and then re-installing the same problem is the primary cause of this. lol Glad it's all working now.

109

vStyler

on Mar 23, 2008

Impulse isn't installing it correctly

Can't be impulse, I use SDC to install and uninstall it. Its Definately IP tho.

Oh well.. Normal windows Icons until this is resolved.

Thanks to everyone on spending time trying to figure this out!

110

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 23, 2008

WOW, and I reformatted twice over this

I pity you. Reformatting and then re-installing the same problem is the primary cause of this. lol Glad it's all working now.

111

vStyler

on Mar 23, 2008

I pity you

yeah me too lots of valuable work hours lost on reformatting a reinstalling all my stuff, saving files etc...

IP (the butler) did it

112

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 23, 2008

Oh and you can install IP 3.20.128 it's stable and works just fine. It's only the latest IP beta that's the problem. Just set SDC to stop showing the beta releases and this IP version should appear for installing.

113

vStyler

on Mar 23, 2008

3.20.128 IS stable, Seems when they went to the new IP interface things got borked.

Hopefully the developer see's this, I can only assume this is affecting a lot of PC's.

114

yrag

on Mar 23, 2008

There's only one problem with IP being the problem....the beta has been out since October of last year. That means something else is corrupting IP. What, I have no idea

If everyone's machines are working again, I wouldn't install/update any Stardock apps until someone smarter then me/us figures it out.

John, I hope I didn't add to your woes.....

115

vStyler

on Mar 23, 2008

John, I hope I didn't add to your woes.....

Not at all, I was in the middle of figuring out the system reset when I read Dogs last post.. I decided to try IP...and Voila.

The new IP interface has been out since October? Thought it was very recent?

116

Daiwa

on Mar 23, 2008

This gets more confusing as time goes by. I have IP 3.20a[rc].033 on only one of the 3 XP rigs affected here. The other two have 3.20.128 & msconfig's UI is MIA on both. I can't blame it on the .033 beta here.

117

vStyler

on Mar 23, 2008

I'd suggest.. going to stable version on all. See if they all work, then update one at a time.

118

eieio

on Mar 23, 2008

There's only one problem with IP being the problem....the beta has been out since October of last year. That means something else is corrupting IP. What, I have no idea If everyone's machines are working again, I wouldn't install/update any Stardock apps until someone smarter then me/us figures it out.

I've also got IP 3.20a[rc].033 and the System Restore corrected my missing msconfig problem. Which probably means I've had IP 3.20a[rc].033 longer than two weeks, which is how far back I went on the System Restore.

I've yet to re-install Impulse and I haven't re-updated Icon Developer to the latest shown 2.00.030, which I had done before with Impulse. I did re-update WB and SKS6 with SDC.

Now here is something interesting, Icon Developer won't start. I get the 'Icondeveloper has encountered a problem and needs to close' message. I'm currently at 197a.[b].039 according to SDC and it was working at that version before this all started.

119

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 23, 2008

I also rolled back WB to the last stable version 6.03.046 and de-installed Impulse. The other thing I noticed on my rig is Impulse had indicated I had a 4.03 release, I think, and SDC indicated 3.9 release. From memory but, I do recall the 2 programs Impulse and SDC did not sync and agree on release level of IP. That's what made me think the install process may have gone bad. For now I'm sticking with the stable release of WB and IP because it's working.

120

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 23, 2008

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