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USING MSCONFIG.EXE TO CLEANUP THE STARTUP MENU
for the Reporting to the MAX

Windows 98 has a new powerful tool called MSConfig, which a lot of people not are aware of.

Find MSConfig

You have to use Start --> Run and type the command msconfig like this:

The program contains of six tabs. On the first, you choose Selective startup:

The second tab lets you enable/disable driver or other calls placed in Config.sys. The same is the case with tab number three Autoexec.bat. Here I see the three lines discussed earlier. Here I disable one of them:

You can also add/edit/disable commands to System.ini. here you see my favorite setting for disk cache:

The commands in Startup

A very important tool is the last tab. Here you can disable programs, that normally are loaded during the Windows startup. This is a very handy tool for clearing some of those background program, since many of them are redundant. They are installed by varies types of software, but often they only delay the startup and represent a waste of memory and other resources:

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The commands in Startup

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Copyright © 2008 GPS Financial Services. All rights reserved.
Revised: 08/08/08