msconfig

Just because I could I decided to use the default Windows Back-Up System but I kept getting an Error. I soon discovered that anyone else with a 100MB System Reserved partition had this Error. I tried many things to expand the partition with no luck. So I just made a new partition and used CMD to...

I am using window 7 and I tried to upgrade my microsoft office 2007 to 2013. Dont know why since I installed Microsoft office 2013, my PC only can turned on in safe mode, I cant turn on in normal boot anymore.When I tried to run or uninstall Microsoft office, the error message showedBlockquote...

Sorry I don't know much about computers so I'll try to give you all the info I know. Basically I tried downloading SIMS 2 off utorrent and did so successfully. (I somehow downloaded some program/application thing called privitizeVNN too??) Anyway, all of a sudden I can't open any browsers. I...

In Safe mode, I opened MSconfig and disabled (unchecked) HP Wireless Networking on the Startup tab. The machine booted into Normal mode! The wi-fi was disabled by the slide switch on the front of the laptop. As soon as I push the switch to enable wi-fi to connect to my router, the system...

Hola Everyone, Strange problems with my computer lately, and it has me completely stumped. For about the past 2 weeks my computer has been becoming slower and slower on startup, and just general usage. And so today I decided to take some actions to try to make it startup faster and just run...

Just like the title says...... I'm encountering this annoying buzzing while playing a movie or music file. I first took it to Compusa and they looked at it and updated anything that had to be updated. They then hooked it up with there speakers and weren't able to replicate the issue. They then...

Hey guys, I would please like some help...i am starting to get a little worried. The other night when i went to startup my laptop, i get a pop up that says.... Microsoft.net framework unhandled exception has occured in your app. If you click continue the app will ignore this error and attempt...

Hi As some of you have probably noticed I've done a lot of complaining about Google Chrome lately. It wouldn't display this page correctly for one thing, always left a large blank space at the top with nothing in it. It wouldn't open links for my mail or other sites. I tried removing and...

I got a new laptop recently (Windows 7 Home Premius SP1), and but there were several dozen updates that wouldn't install. After looking around online a bit, I eventually decided to go to msconfig and change the startup to only boot with windows programs, which solved that particular problem...

I have built a new computer and have Windows 7 64 bit operating system. On every boot I get a pop up saying Reminder App has stopped working. Then it wants to know if I want to send a report. What is this? I have found the answer. You have to go to Start,Msconfig ,Startup Tag ,then scroll down...

Hey guys, today I inherited a bad trojan that infected my windows and caused it to restart after one minute and also disabled my windows firewall indefinitely. I ran numerous malware and anti virus programs and cleaned out all the trojans and infections I could find, and the computer finally now...

I have a user who just installed a piece of software on his PC. Now whenever he logs in to his computer the system briefly displays his desktop, then reboots. He has been unable to use his PC since this error began. How would I troubleshoot the system? Could I use MSCONFIG to troubleshoot? If...

My Windows 7 came with a minimal boot screen that only shows bars going across (like XP but without logo). I opened msconfig to see if the No GUI boot was selected, but it wasn't. I tried change the boot screen with Win7BootUpdater, but that didn't work, either. Could somebody suggest anything...

For some reason, my blue swirly icon doesn't seems to be animating(spinning) like it should. My msconfig GUI is unchecked. Also, after that, it seems to be lagging for a few seconds. Programs taking a longer time to load. I bought this laptop 1 month ago. It's a i7-2640M 2.8ghz 64bit 8gb ram...

I have a laptop with a single core processor and 4 gigabytes of system Ram. It has no video card, but a video chip on the motherboard instead. This video chip has 336 MB of dedicated ram And uses up to 1.2 gigabytes of additional shared system ram for video memory. My goal is to slim down the...

When I boot my Win 7 machine and logon the desktop loads just fine, but when I click on the start button it freezes and doesn't come back - I can't click on anything. I think I've managed to narrow it down to being a problem with the DHCP service by disabling all services in msconfig and...

Not sure if this is the correct place for this but...this morning I noticed an exclamation in my taskbar that services were not running. I looked for services.msc in the search in the start button, but nothing came up. I also typed in MSConfig in the search in the start button search, and...

Many of us, who like to futz around with our PC's, not just appliance operators, like to get into our Control Panels every once in a while. But Win-8 doesn't make that as easy as it was in XP. However there is a way to get to the control panel in Win-8. Here's one way: From the Metro screen, ...

FYI: This is due to folks asking about changing things in a duel-boot scenario. An OS was installed then, another, hence the dual-boot... we'll call them 1 & 2. NOW, they want OS2 to exist and boot w/out OS1 The following is a way to do it: I had a dual-boot, Windows 7 x86 & x64. x86 was the...

I would like to clean up my disabled entries in MSCONFIG BUT there is no entry for it in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\ on my desktop. there is on my laptop. When is MSCONFIG hiding these things??? How do i get it back????????