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10-08-2006, 12:23 PM
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Startup programs in 2000
Doing some work on a friends computer and what a mess. He wants to upgrade to XP, but this machine is so old, it has hair growing out of the drives. It's like a x486 with 128 megs of RAM with a 30 gig HDD. Anyway, I told him his best avenue would be to just build or buy new. Out of the question for him. So, I've cleaned and defragged the hard drive. When I tried to adjust the programs that start with windows, it says it doesn't recognize "msconfig". Is there another command for 2000 to adjust at startup?
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10-08-2006, 01:43 PM
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10-08-2006, 03:26 PM
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ccleaner is also a good piece of software. It will allow you to select what you would and wouldn't like to run on system startup.
Along with this it also offers a very decent cleanup wizard and fixes registry problems, both of which would do the system some good. 
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10-08-2006, 04:11 PM
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or open regedit and navigate down to HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version
look in the run\runonce\runonceex folders for programs that have a regisry key in there, and delete the unnecessary ones.
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10-08-2006, 04:23 PM
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Thanks for the replies. I got it. It's still slow, but nowhere near as bad as before.
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10-08-2006, 05:48 PM
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well if those are some accurate specs on this pc i can see why its so slow, might want to recommend either building or buying a new pc. you can definitely get a decent pc for around $400-$500. i cant imagine he does much on that pc besides browse the net, email, and basic use of applications, definitely NO GAMING on his current machine, at least i hope not, unless its solitaire, or checkers..........
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