# Is there a tool similar to MSCONFIG for Windows 2000?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tool-similar-to-msconfig-for-windows-2000/270633 "2004-10-22T18:20:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tool-similar-to-msconfig-for-windows-2000/270633/1 "2004-10-22T18:20:29Z")

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Is there such a tool? I don’t want to mess around with the registry editor.

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**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tool-similar-to-msconfig-for-windows-2000/270633/2 "2004-10-22T18:48:14Z")

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The [XP version](http://www.iamnotageek.com/a/88-p1.php) works.

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**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tool-similar-to-msconfig-for-windows-2000/270633/3 "2004-10-22T20:42:05Z")

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can’t remember, but wincfg does something, I think

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**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tool-similar-to-msconfig-for-windows-2000/270633/4 "2004-10-23T14:36:57Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266690&highlight=win2k](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266690&highlight=win2k)

I asked this not too long ago and received several good answers.