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[Stopsign002]

... and then if you want the disabled startup items removed from your msconfig console, you can run regedit and drill down to;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg

and manually delete each hive (folder) safely.

you can double check to see what's starting up in the background, (same as msconfig) in;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run


reboot and gone.

PS: in XP that is, and Google Chrome runs an updater each time Chrome is launched, it can be removed in the registry as well.

Yikes! Bro, from my experience as a computer major and a general computer nerd my whole life, never tell people whos computer level you dont know to mess with the registry lol. Its too easy to get confused and delete something you shouldnt in there. If you have a handle on it fine, but I've heard far to many "oops I messed with my reg and now windows wont boot/random thing just doesnt work anymore" horror stories lol. Messing with the registry is the fastest way to a unstable system if you dont know what your doing

msconfig on the other hand is pretty safe and a great way to get rid of those annoying background start up programs. From vista or windows 7 just type msconfig into the search box in the start menu and itll open from there. Go through services and start up programs and uncheck anything you dont want starting up. I suggest you don't mess with any of the microsoft start ups unless you look them up to be sure you really dont want them. Just do a google search of what they are. You can also message me if you need help, I dont mind doing a little trouble shooting over email/messages

 

[G-RELL]

LOL i thought this thread was going to be about certain members ...

 

[RigsLS]

Yikes! Bro, ... never tell people whos computer level you dont know to mess with the registry... fastest way to a unstable system if you dont know what your doing.

Your right, I shouldn't be putting too much information into silly hands.

... message me if you need help, I dont mind doing a little trouble shooting over email/messages

Ahh yeah, OK, I'll take a pass on that one, perhaps others need a hand, I grew up on this stuff and went to collage for a Networking Security Specialist degree. Built Unix & Novell networks, NT4 Servers with Win32 clients back in the day, configured Routers when most here were still in diapers.

Then I spent some more time behind the books doing ASP & SQL programming, administrating a server room full of Windows 2000 servers on Quad processors servers (at the time), Telecommunications systems, backups and adhoc UNIX jobs, for a major Canadian Medical Financial player, all while punching out entire websites for extra $$$ from home in the evenings.

Reg keys can be scary if you don't know what you are doing and I should have perhaps not posted that thinking others may be knowledgeable enough
to venture into the hives.


... oh and then 7.5 years of that IT go-to guy crap and I flipped a desk and went trucking.


To think that I once sat and put a bunch of 1's and 0's in the right Fn places to deep kernel binary program in memory. what a waste of time that was. :Bang

Surprised I didn't 'snap' sooner.

LOL i thought this thread was going to be about certain members ...

ROFL, I thought so to, BTW am I still on your virus list ?

 

[Stopsign002]

Your right, I shouldn't be putting too much information into silly hands.





Ahh yeah, OK, I'll take a pass on that one, perhaps others need a hand, I grew up on this stuff and went to collage for a Networking Security Specialist degree. Built Unix & Novell networks, NT4 Servers with Win32 clients back in the day, configured Routers when most here were still in diapers.

Then I spent some more time behind the books doing ASP & SQL programming, administrating a server room full of Windows 2000 servers on Quad processors servers (at the time), Telecommunications systems, backups and adhoc UNIX jobs, for a major Canadian Medical Financial player, all while punching out entire websites for extra $$$ from home in the evenings.

Reg keys can be scary if you don't know what you are doing and I should have perhaps not posted that thinking others may be knowledgeable enough
to venture into the hives.


... oh and then 7.5 years of that IT go-to guy crap and I flipped a desk and went trucking.


To think that I once sat and put a bunch of 1's and 0's in the right Fn places to deep kernel binary program in memory. what a waste of time that was. :Bang

Surprised I didn't 'snap' sooner.

Lol yeah, I dont know, I really like working with end users. Drives most people up the wall but I'm just patient I guess. My career goal is being the main IT person for a business, taking care of their active directory(s), their hardware, website, that would be fun to me. For the most part I HATE programming, any administration/hardware/networking (website programming I dont mind oddly) I have no problem with. Idk, I just gotta' get the degree first lol

And yeah, I've just had bad luck with my friends doing stupid sh*t with my computer advice so I don't give out advice beyond very basic stuff now. Ill help people, but I won't explain what I'm doing because I dont want them wondering around the system and messing things up lol

 

[RigsLS]

Every third-party install they mess something up.

friend of my wife asked if I would look at her laptop cuz it was running real slow,
she brought it over, after a 10min bootup, I pointed at the task bar and said; "geez, I wonder why?"

msconfig startup had a scroll bar on it !
never mind all the background live update process she had installed. tsk, tsk, tsk.

myself, I've got 2 lines in my startup, AVG and ZoneAlarm.
Router here at home uses an MAC address white list for access both cabled and wireless,
does not advertise broadcast and requires a 63 random ASCII character password to get on. it's locked up tight.

BTW; if you ever need a real good strong password, https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm


... and I recommend, the Steve Gibson Research website @ https://www.grc.com/default.htm

Check the 'ShieldsUP!' and 'LeakTest' applications, best apps to check system security, see which Ports are left open, people just buy routers and plug them in without configuring them for security.

I can drive around a neighborhood with wifi laptop and get into unprotected home based routers which are left wide open, people think a password to get into the settings is secure enough but don't understand how to set broadcasting to disabled and turn off access by using IP or MAC address white lists.

Use Remote Regedit, to leave them a 'readme.txt' file on their desktop by pounding the C$ drive with an app. (access the %SYSTEMROOT% on remote hosts) Explain in the file what their new password to the router is and how to secure it properly. Fun Fun Fun. Ha, changed a guys desktop color to pink for a week once. then I left a detailed note in his mail box, 3 day later I couldn't get in.

... was around the time I gave up trying to be a Hacker.

Was having way too much fun on websites with vulnerable guestbook & form scripts to.

~ damn, I was a bad kid once!