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re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 7:45 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (32675 messages posted) The easiest, safest way is to use a third party startup mgr., and you can't get much simpler than Mike Lin's Startup Ctrl. Panel. For future ref, if you go into the program/s configuration settings to make your startup prefs, rather than just unchecking in MSCONFIG, that would eliminate them from the startup list. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 8:33 pm Posted by Ricer46 (20448 messages posted) It tells you the exact location of each. On Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 7:34 pm, David Bookbinder wrote: >I have maybe a dozen disabled entries in the System Configuration editor that I'd >like to delete, as I never intend to re-enable them. I have had no success finding >where in the Registry (or elsewhere?) the System Configuration editor hides these >disabled entries and would appreciate a pointer, so I can delete them. > >Thanks, >David [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 9:33 pm Posted by Helen~ (2479 messages posted) I've found this free app useful. http://www.get-in-control.com/msconfig-cleanup/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 3:18 am Posted by Spexx (1951 messages posted) Msconfig lists the full registry path to the key which you can navigate to using regedit, but what it doesn't tell you is that once you have disabled it, it puts the entry into another key for storage. The regular key for startups is a "Run" key, but when msconfig has disabled it you will find the entry in a "Run-" (run minus) key immediately below the Run key in the regedit listing. Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 4:10 am Posted by David Bookbinder (306 messages posted) Thanks. But, actually, I was unable to find these disabled items in the Run- key (which is where I expected to find them based on my Win9x experiences). So, after I posted the previous message, I went looking for a smarter Registry searcher than the one in the Registry, which found the bogus keys, eventually, in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg. Deleting the bogus keys there seems to have done it, as they are still missing from MSConfig after a reboot. On Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 3:18 am, Spexx wrote: >Msconfig lists the full registry path to the key which you can navigate to using >regedit, but what it doesn't tell you is that once you have disabled it, it puts >the entry into another key for storage. The regular key for startups is a "Run" key, >but when msconfig has disabled it you will find the entry in a "Run-" (run minus) >key immediately below the Run key in the regedit listing. Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 4:11 am Posted by MartinM (3453 messages posted) They aren't doing any harm, just sitting there - apart from maybe offending your sense of neatness (I feel that too) - but if you should find later that you did need one it is easy just to re-enable it . . . In passing, I find WinPatrol (free download) a very practical way to control what starts up with XP (and when). MSCONFIG is neither an easy nor an informative tool, and does not list every start-up process. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Deleting unwanted disabled entries from System Configuration editor Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 4:17 am Posted by David Bookbinder (306 messages posted) Thanks, I'm aware they aren't doing any harm, but I'd rather get rid of them. Found the Registry key, and will also look at the tools suggested here. Thanks again, David On Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 4:11 am, MartinM wrote: > >They aren't doing any harm, just sitting there - apart from maybe offending your >sense of neatness (I feel that too) - but if you should find later that you did need >one it is easy just to re-enable it . . . > >In passing, I find WinPatrol (free download) a very practical way to control what >starts up with XP (and when). MSCONFIG is neither an easy nor an informative tool, >and does not list every start-up process. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum