msconfig

I am starting a new thread here to post my solution, since so many other threads were opened on this topic. I am cross posting on a number of sites, too, since so many people are having a similar problem. Apologies for that, but I am trying to spread this solution. Took me about six months to...

Hi ! I am new to Windows 7 and I have a question that I need an answer to if at all possible. I was told there is a way to force a program to use all of my processors and Ram memory. I need to figure out if this possible and what I have to do to accomplish this. I am wanting to force a video...

Everytime I start up i get this annoying screen: Link Removed due to 404 Error 1. How do I removed this from my startup 2. What is it? I have set my msconfig right: Link Removed due to 404 Error and i also did disable here: Link Removed due to 404 Error What the ****...

Well, this is really doing my head in, its about time microsoft sorted it out, as many people have the same issue: I have tried restoring to an earlier state, but my computer doesnt have any. MSCONFIF/Tools trouble shoot computer problems/hardware and sound/configure devices satates that...

Trying to disable some of the bloatware that came with my HP G62, as well as disable unneeded auto-updates, and have been blocked from doing so. Ran msconfig, startup entries... Unchecked, hit "apply" and they just become checked again. ??? (Ran as administrator on admin account) Tried...

My laptop does not seem to boot into safe mode. I've been tapping F8, even though it says F8...system restore on the bottom left corner, it still won't boot. I tried this other method on advance recovery method and chose use system image created earlier - that and return to factory condition...

I wanted to install a new SSD. Intended to clone it, but my cloning software wouldn't work with it (SSD was smaller than the drive I wanted to clone). So I used Paragon to copy my boot partition to the drive (after I made it active). I then tried to boot from the SSD (using BIOS settings)...

Hey People! sorry if this is a question that has been asked before! I was using windows XP Home Edition everything was working fine I had this os loaded on my slave HD. I then did a clean install of windows 7 on my primary hd everything loaded fine and windows 7 runs. but I assumed that I could...

My New Laptop doesn't have two users only one..and that user is me.. I don't have administrative rights so therefore I can't create an administrator..to do simple tasks such as delete a program,, or open up msconfig.. These functions need administrative rights.. How do I get these???? My...

I hope this is the right forum for this but if not please move it. Yesterday when i logged on this came up gidle.exe. I went online to find out what this was. It could be a virus or malware or some other nastys. I have ran sever scans with these software. Spybot Malwarebytes Nod32 anti virus...

Hi! So the issue I'm having is that I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate (from XP Ultimate) and the computer was working really slowly. First I opened task manager and found only one CPU was being monitored, there was only one window for one CPU, not two windows with only one firing...

Have a e6600 dual core, evga 680i board, 4 gb ddr26400, gtx260, win 7 pro upgraded from vista. I have looked all over and tried almost everything. BIOS detects dual core as it allows me to enable or disable the second one, and intel proc id tool detects 2 cores. However, windows 7, and any...

So one day I decided to open up paint to paste a screenshot I took and got an error about ODBC32.dll not working. I just ignored it. Then today I realize that important things like msconfig, and Computer Management also use this dll file, so stupidly I tried replacing it with a copy from another...

I can not use my 4 GB RAM for gaming - since the only way for me to get my Creative X-Fi Extreme Music working properly under Win 7 is to use the memory limitation under MSCONFIG to 4096 kB. I have the latest drivers from Creative and I have attached my CpuZ settings and Win settings for RAM...

Hi, I have upgraded to Windows 7 and now when I start the PC I have to chose which OS to start with. However when I enter the msconfig file in the Boot tab only the windows7 is listed! Any idea how I avoid the need to chose during PC startup which OS to run? Thanks

Hello all, I just found your site and figured I would give it a try to solve some problems I am having with Windows 7 Home Premium. So I recently tried to open up the gadgets menu on the desktop when and error message appeared stating: "Settings.ini is being used by another process. Close...

If you go run msconfig and then to boot you'll find at the bottom right something that says timout and 30seconds filled in. What does this mean? that my computer pauzes 30seconds when starting up? and also in advanced options you can choose max amount of ram and max proccesses. Should I change...

Hi, I need to remove xp from my C: Help plz..... i installed XP in C: (primary partition) and Win7 in D: I need to remove the XP. I cant format that drive...:(:(:( what should i do to remove that??? In Run->msconfig->Boot tab it shows 1ly win7...i cant delete xp.... PLZ HELP.... Thanks in...

I attempted to run msconfig to uncheck some progs in my startup, like I did already many times before, always with no problems at all. Then my Windows 7 Ultimate PC (Dell XPS M1530) crashed with a broken RAM (one of my two 2GB is defect, so I took it out and restarted with 2GB). All is fine...

My Top 10 Windows 7 Tips - by Terry Blount - Link Removed 1. Clone your hard drive! Hard drive prices are down to 5 cents per GB, which is VERY cheap. Acronis True Image is the premium program for cloning. There are free versions for Seagate and WD hard drives on their sites. The cloning...