[Ham-Computers] RE: System Startup Question.

Wed Apr 18 13:02:32 EDT 2007

"Hijackthis" is the perfect app to run in this situation, but it can be a dangerous tool if improperly used (can cause your system to not boot or behave irratically).  It shows all of the apps starting with Windows as well as hooks and apps that start with Internet Explorer (BHO's: Browser Help Objects, DPF's: Downloaded Program Files, toolsbars, etc) and other information.  It's probably the most widely used tool to diagnose ad/spyware problems as you can see most startup items and BHO's in one place.

Loren already stepped you through the MSCONFIG list.  If you feel comfortable with trying Hijackthis, then go here and download it:  http://www.merijn.org.  Version 2.00(beta) is the "newest" version and the old faithful version is 1.99.1.  TrendMicro recently purchased Hijackthis from the original author, if that gives you an idea of how popular it is.

Once you download Hijackthis, put it in a folder by itself and run it - it's self contained.  Do a "System Scan" and go through the list.  Don't tick any of the checkboxes unless you know you want to remove that component.  Once done, click on the "Fix checked" button if you want to enact the changes, or click the upper right "X" to close Hijackthis without any changes.  If you fix any changes, an undo for each change is saved in a folder where Hijackthis is located.  You can undo any change by starting Hijackthis, selecting "view list of backups", and selecting which item(s) to restore.

Again, be careful with Hijackthis as it doesn't know "bad" from "good" - it just does what you tell it to do.  Remove the wrong thing and you could run into problems.  If anyone needs more info, let me know.

73!

  - Aaron Hsu, NN6O

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of KD7JYK
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:10 AM
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or experimenting
Subject: [Ham-Computers] System Startup Question.

I click Start, Run, type "MSCONFIG" and the appropriate program is run...

Under the "Startup" tab there are 16 items listed, four are checked, some
are repeats.

Is it necessary to have the same item listed several times, none of them
checked?

Some items are from programs no longer installed.

Some lines were never used to begin with, none the less, they are there.

How can these lines be removed from the list rather than just remain
unchecked?

Kurt

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