Sigh. Been looking in the helpfiles and getting nowhere. I’ve deleted a program (fun thought it was) that was part of my start-up procedure on win 98. Now when I boot up, it says it’s looking for the program. How do I let it know on a more permenant basis than hitting ‘cancel’ all the time that it shouldn’t be lookin’ for the program because it’s JUST NOT THERE?
Thanks in advance.
Click Start>Run, type msconfig and click OK. Select the Startup tab and see if the program you deleted is listed, if it is then clear the checkbox next to it.
If not, you probably need to hack the registry.
I have posted this many times before but here goes:
A program can be loaded at startup from:
WIN.INI
on the load= and run= lines.
STARTUP folder.
REGISTRY
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce
HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce etc
Drivers (VXDs) can also be loaded at startup time from:
If you do not find your “offender”, be aware that entries may not use the name you expect. Also examine the entire \windows\startmenu\programs tree for additional Startup folders.
Compulsory recommendation against using Windows 9X follows:
Please, don’t use Windows 98.
I use WIN98SE and it works fine for me. krilli, your post does not address the question asked in the OP and does not add anything of value. If you want to rant against WIN98 you can go to the pit but this is not the place.