Msconfig command in windows xp sp3

[Arley]

Hi,
i use msconfig command in win 2000 and winxp but it does not work in wn 2003. how can i use msconfig in windows XP SP3. i want to see all startup programs which loads as win starts, such as Startup Tab in msconfig program.

Thanks

[Dodge]

What programs specifically?

You weren't meddling with the Services tab, were you? It's unfortunate that MSCONFIG treats the Startup and Services tabs so much the same. Whenever I give advice about working on the Startup tab I always include the warning, don't try to change things on the adjacent Services tab.

[Dodge]

First of all, we need to make sure that the MSCONFIG file is still in your drive. Surprisingly MSConfig.exe is not located in Windows or System32 directory. Two ways to find where MSConfig.exe is. You can either use Windows search to look for *msconfig* or go to another computer, use Process Explorer to find the path to MSConfig.

In the right pane, next to Default, it should show:

C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe

Once you have both MSConfig.exe file in your computer and the registry path is set correctly, you shouldn’t have problems running msconfig command from Run.

In addition to the fix above, here’s a very good tool that is able to create usable copies of REGEDIT, MSCONFIG and Task Manager which I found from Doug’s website. This small VB 6 utility will create a usable backup copy of Taskmgr.exe, MSConfig.exe and Regedit.EXE in a new folder, called C:\EmergencyUtils. The new copies will be named Copy_of_Taskmgr.exe, Copy_of_MSConfig.exe and Copy_of_Regedit.com.

As you can see, Process Explorer clearly shows that MSConfig.exe is located in C:\Windows\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe.

Go to C:\Windows\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\ and check if MSConfig.exe file is there or not. If it’s not there, you can copy it from another computer to the Binaries folder or if you only have Windows XP CD, open a command prompt window, insert your XP CD into the drive and enter the following command: (assuming D is your CD drive and C is where your Windows is installed)

EXPAND -R D:\I386\MSCONFIG.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\BINARIES

That should restore MSConfig.exe to your Windows. IF MSConfig.exe is already there and you still can’t launch MSCONFIG from Run command, then the reference to the path within the registry may be wrong. Check this location in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\MSCONFIG.EXE

[Pauline]

Hi...
Download the msconfig.exe Windows XP version file.

if you download this file, save it to the c:\winnt\system32 folder so you can use the Start/Run method to access it, or save it to the desktop, that way you can access it by clicking on the icon it will create on your desktop.

[Tcent247]

Originally Posted by Dodge

What programs specifically?

You weren't meddling with the Services tab, were you? It's unfortunate that MSCONFIG treats the Startup and Services tabs so much the same. Whenever I give advice about working on the Startup tab I always include the warning, don't try to change things on the adjacent Services tab.

I actually did that, what I did was disable all the running services...to make the processes only I was running at the time faster. At the time I thought I could just enable them again. I rebooted my machine after applying and found out that most of the services were removed (mostly drivers) and only some were left there. I enabled what i had, and some programs won't even run now. I can see all the services that were removed by going into services.msi, but they don't come up in services in Msconfig.exe. In services.msi it let me enable them, the option wont let me. When I try to restore my system it tells me that "System Restore does not protect your computer..." Please tell me how I can enable all my services and drivers again, or how to restore my system to normal. Thanks

[Tcent247]

I messed up there ^ ... it's services.msc not .msi

[Masudkarim]

I got a report from my customer that her computer is being infected by virus. Her description of the problem in her computer was computer is slow, can’t save any documents because her hard drive is nearly full although she doesn’t have much files, and Internet Explorer font is weird.

The first thing that I always do before anything is run MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility) and check the startup entries there. It’s not the best tool to check for every programs that starts up with Windows, but it’s a basic one which is able to give me a rough idea if the computer is infected by virus or not.

When I go to Start, Run, type MSCONFIG and click OK, I got the error message “Windows cannot find ‘msconfig’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click