Long boot up time and old software

[KnowTheToe]

I am wanting to deactivate several programs that load automatically when I boot up by system. I had entered a command using the run function under the Start Menu that gave me a screen with all of the programs lauched at bootup and I could check the boxes of the software I wanted/did not want to launch on boot up.

Surely someone here knows this simple command. Please come to my ailing computers aid.

 

[Henrix]

regedit?
It does not only display the programs that start up when you boot, though.

 

[CRGreathouse]

No, I think he's talking about a program that compiles a list of all such program from the registry, Startup folder, win.ini, etc. I've seen it but never used it.

 

[poilbrun]

I have a program that does this, it's called RegCleaner...

 

[Glyfair]

He's probably talking about msconfig. It's not as thorough as some third party programs. However, it will list much of what loads at startup.

Glyfair of Glamis

 

[Psionicist]

True.

Start -> Run -> msconfig -> Autostart tag.

 

[KnowTheToe]

msconfig. That was exactly what I was looking for