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Startup annoyances
Name: Harry (by Hugger1) Date: October 13, 2007 at 14:16:10 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 550 MHZ / 640 MB Product: Dell Dimension 650
Comment:
On start-up, the Dell PC at home asks for our previous ISP's installation disk. As well, while the PC is starting up a picture from my son's collection appears before the regular desktop background appears. Any idea how to get rid of these two annoyances?
Name: capt Date: October 13, 2007 at 20:38:09 Pacific
Reply:
Have you installed a "msconfig" program to allow you to control what programs are initialized at startup? If you have you can check for the items that are your "bugs". If not a msconfig program download that works fine for Windows 2000 is at this site;
Let it scan, then do options, check all three options in turn. Then hit the refresh button. Find anything with the ISP's name in it, right click then delete.
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