Still Widows2000 config probs....

[Romulus]

I was working on someone else's computer and they wanted me to disable something in the start up procedure that was annoying. However, I tried to run the msconfig file and it doesn't exist on the windows 2000 pro OS.

Does anyone know the equivalent of this file for Win2000 pro?

I.E.- if you go to the 'run' command, what can you enter to get to the same system configuration utility that the other versions of Windows get to through msconfig???

[oracleguy]

You can look in the registry under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Stuff that is launched at startup is in there.


FYI, they added msconfig back in with Windows XP.

[Romulus]

yeah, I found an article on the internet about windows XP having it (I didn't think it did).
I just don't know why they changed it at all... Why not just keep something like that the same for all version?

[Romulus]

one more thing...
In order to disable something when I am in the regedit, what should I do? I don't like deleting things out of the regestry or changing them at all for that matter....gives me the willies:D

[Tails]

Speaking of equivalentce with Win2000 Pro, I am looking for something too. In Windows 98/ME, there is a file called oemlogo.bmp stored in C:\windows\system (stored in C:\Windows\system32 in XP) and it displays the manufacturer logo. I'm designing a Theme Pack and I want it to work for all Windows versions. A screen shot of my system is at http://XFox_Prower.tripod.com/download/system.gif

[Romulus]

I couldn't find the file that you mentioned on my system and I have ME. I did find a gif, oemlogo, I'm not sure it's what you're looking for though.
Attached it anyway...

[Romulus]

Someone replied to my other post about looking for an equivalent utility to the msconfig option in all windows but 2000, but I really didn't recieve a whole lot of info about it.

Is there anything that I can do to choose the startup items that the computer loads without editing the registry?
I've also heard about something (bootcfg), but I'm not sure if Windows2000 has this either??

There MUST be some way to edit the startup items without messing with your registry...

[Roelf]

it is in the registry, so eventually i comes down to messing with the registry. It can be done with a more userfriendly tool then regedit though.
I once stumbled across a tool named "startup control panel", which gave userfriendly access to the run, runonce etc keys in the registry to edit or delete entries.
i will look if i can find it for you

[Roelf]

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

[Romulus]

that looks like exactly what I'm looking for...:D

[mouse]

Threads merged.

[Tails]

To Romulus, was the oemlogo.gif you found the image that you see when you right click "my computer" and select properties? If so, then that is the correct logo. It's usually a company logo. But why was yours GIF and other's BMP? I suspect that it can be any name and is detected by a registry string or ini file to point to the correct path and filename. If that is true, I will have alot of trouble creating a batch file to detect such things. But if I knew of a good C++ compiler or any compiler that were free, I'd be able to learn a language without having to be a millionaire. My specialty is DOS batch file programming, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I'm probably beyond that of a legitimate C programmer, so I would need just a little hint at where to go for a freeware compiler that works (DEV C++ does not work it seems).