If you just want to analyze what occurs during the boot process on a Windows 7 machine, Jack Wallen says msconfig is the perfect tool for the job. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or ...

Do you have any idea how many programs are running on your systems without your knowledge? Using msconfig, you'll know. You'll also see that by shutting down many of these unneccessary programs, your ...

Servers don't usually suffer from the same problems that desktops do. But depending on the server's role, it can be difficult for it to start quickly if you've installed a lot of software. Many ...

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One of the biggest slowdowns on a Windows computer is the barrage of applications that start up when you boot Windows. This application list will tell you which of those are safe to remove from ...

When I click Start and then Run and type in msconfig.exe, I get a thing called the Startup tab. There I see many programs starting every time my machine boots up. I would like to delete the unused ...

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Anything I can do to permanently disable the msmgs.exe messenger process. I have it unchecked but it keeps writing it back upon reboot.

In Win98 I could run "msconfig" and see all of the programs that would run at startup. I want to know if there is an equivalent in Win2K. I thought maybe TweakUI had that ability, but apparently not.

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