Windows 2000 and MSCONFIG

LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, Alaska Icrontian
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
Saw somewhere in the forums before, but can't seem to find it now -- how do you add/reveal the msconfig function in Windows 2K? I would really like to turn off some auto-start, proprietary crap in my office machines.

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2004
    You can copy (or extract) the msconfig executable from w98se and it will work. I haven't tried it, but I would suspect that the WinXP version might work, too.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited April 2004
    You can download it from here. Put it in the c:\winnt\system32\ (c:\winnt\ works also) folder.

    I'm not sure whether using the 98 version will work on 2000, or is it just older versions off the original 98 that won't work? not 98SE. Either way, the one I linked to will work fine. I think it's from XP. :)

    Cheers
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    No W98se available to me.

    Oops - sorry, didn't notice the suggestion to extract from XP.

    Thanks Spinner for the link. I've downloaded it. Out on a business trip starting tommorrow. Out of the office off and on for the next month. I'll report back on the success of the file.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Spinner, after dropping msconfig.exe into system32 or winnt, will the 'Run' command call it up? Or will I need to create an msconfig shortcut?
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited April 2004
    Leo, I just added them into a folder I made called msconfig and made a shortcut to activate it with on my Win2K rigs and it works just fine. I use the one out of XP.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited April 2004
    If you put it in the above stated folder, it should, I think, be called up through the run command. But you can run it manually from anywhere, even a floppy disk. So either way should work fine.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Okie Dokie

    I just compared the msconfig.exe files from WinXp and the version Spinner linked. They appear to be exactly the same. Both execute just the same on this XP box.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    Yep I download it every time I install 2k and place it in the above mentioned folder and using Run it opens.
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