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Changing Startup Programs

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Hi, i'm wondering how i can remove certain things that run at startup and stay in my system tray, is there an equivelant for msconfig in windows 2000? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Name: Dick Johnson
Date: October 16, 2003 at 08:01:38 Pacific

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Either "Start-Up Control Panel" or "Start Up Cop". Do a search; both work fine.

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Name: capt
Date: October 16, 2003 at 08:09:25 Pacific

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You can also install "msconfig" from http://www.techadvice.com/ it is found in the Windows Support 2000 area.

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Thanks a lot ppl, all sorted now :)

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