Autorun at startup in NT 4

Factual Questions
1

One of the severs at work loads windows explorer every time it’s rebooted.

It’s not in startup and msconfig is not a recognised command. And I think I’ve looked through win.ini and system.ini. so how do you find out what’s autoran at startup in NT 4?

Thansk.

2

Start > Run > Regedit

Look in the following registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN

Delete any references to EXPLORER.EXE you see there. It’s best to make a backup of the key before deleting anything (click on the “RUN” folder and click File > Export and save the file as a .REG file).

As you found out, MSCONFIG doesn’t exist in NT 4.

3

There’s no mention in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\ doesn’t have the ‘run’ directory.

4

Autoruns is a free tool that lists all of the programs that get run at startup. It includes the ones mentioned in this thread as well as others.