# Win 95 question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 7, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-95-question/102253 "2002-04-07T01:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-95-question/102253/1 "2002-04-07T01:28:45Z")
Hey, I’m trying to remove programs from a friend’s computer and I can’t run “msconfig” like I can on any other windows I’ve used. How do I get into her system setting to stop all kinds of crazy crap from running during startup? Plain “config” just takes me to a music program. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-95-question/102253/2 "2002-04-07T02:13:32Z")
freeware PC Magazine’s Startup Cop 95/98/NT Manage your startup programs [http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,77594,.html](http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,77594,.html) > [@](#): > > When Windows starts up, it automatically launches a number of programs for you. Some of these come from the Startup folder. Windows also looks in six other locations for files that should be launched at startup. Startup Cop helps you handle problems with programs that are automatically launched at startup by listing them and letting you disable, enable, or delete them. You can save the list of programs that are currently enabled or disabled as a profile that can be restored at a later time. Startup Cop was written by Neil J. Rubenking, and first appeared in PC Magazine April 20, 1999 (v18n08 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-95-question/102253/3 "2002-04-07T02:30:32Z")
msconfig is win98, not win95. If you search the archives you will find a number of threads where I have explained in detail where and how things get started.