msconfig

jslow · 25th January 2004

Hi,
Does anyone know how to remove duplicate or no longer needed program listings in msconfig, startup tab?

Thanks

**noahdfear** · 26th January 2004

Startup Control Panel can do that for you.

jslow · 26th January 2004

Hi noahdfear,
Thanks for the reply. I'll give Start Up Control Panel a try.

jslow · 26th January 2004

Hi noahdfear,
I tried Start Up Control Panel but it appears that it only lists the programs that actually start up at start up.
I have quite a few programs listed in, msconfig, start up tab that I have unchecked and these are not listed in the Start Up Control Panel.
Some of these programs are listed 2 or 3 times and I would like to remove them from the listings in Start Up tab in msconfig.

Is this possible?

Thanks

**Miz** · 26th January 2004

Here's what I found on deleting old entries in msconfig.

These values are stored in two places in the Registry. Click Start>Run, type in "regedit" (without the quotes), click OK.

For items that were in the Start menu, Programs, Startup folder:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupfolder.
You'll find a subkey for each disabled item.

For items loaded from the Registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg.
Again, you'll find a subkey for each disabled item.

Source

BurrWalnut · 26th January 2004

To remove unwanted registry entries for programs that have been uninstalled, run regedit and navigate to registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Expand the Uninstall and in the right pane right click and delete any unwanted entries

**noahdfear** · 26th January 2004

jslow,

If you recheck those entries to start and reboot, they will then show up in Startup Control Panel and can then be disabled/deleted.

If that doesn't get them, the regedits mentioned above will.

lj50 · 26th January 2004

H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete what you want from that list.

jslow · 29th January 2004

Hi guys,
Thanks for all the replies.
I am still trying some of them.

**Zander** · 29th January 2004

noahdfear's suggestion should work. If however, you want to go the regedit route unless I missed it, I haven't seen this mentioned yet. The ones that you have unchecked will be here.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr
entVersion\run-

jslow · 29th January 2004

Hi Zander,
Thanks for the reply.
When I go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr

entVersion\run-

All the listing here are the ones I have checked (not unchecked) in msconfig, startup tab.

**Zander** · 29th January 2004

Did you look in the "run" key or "run-" ? Those that you uncheck in msconfig should get moved out of the run key and into the run- key.

jslow · 29th January 2004

Hi Zander,
I don't have a Run-
I have:

One folder titled "Run"
One folder titled "RunOnce"
One folder titled "RunOnceEX
&One folder titled "RunServices"

If I expand the "Run" folder I get "Optional Components"

Any suggestions?
Thanks

**Zander** · 29th January 2004

Well, that's a new one for me. I don't know what to tell you. I've never seen a windows registry that didn't have a run- key, nor have I ever seen the optional components subkey in the run key. Maybe I'll learn something today. What's in the optional components key? Did you try doing a find in regedit for one of the unchecked entries?

Has anybody else here seen this before?

jslow · 30th January 2004

Hi Zander,
If you expand Optional Components, there are thre folders as follows:

IMAIL FOLDER
MAPI FOLDER
MSFS FOLDER

I didn't try a search in regedit because I'm not sure how to do it.

Thanks