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Use msconfig to disable unnecessary programs that start up when you boot. Services.msc is for adjusting how services start when the system is booted (Automatically, Manual or Disabled).

only used the startup tab unchecked things like java, adobe reader junk ect and please actually read the message

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Well why don't you clarify your question a little better. It's a little vague.

worked on a pc unchecked programs that do NOT need to run at start up she restarted days later claiming she had issues after the login screen. she claims she could not get into safe mode and can't do a system restore.

I have done msconfig on MANY pc's including my own many times and know for a fact that there is NO WAY unchecking programs like adobe and other junk will affect SAFE MODE or SYSTEM RESTORE.

started this thread to copy/paste it to her and prove her wrong

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Using msconfig to disable programs at startup should not have any effect on Safe Mode, because...well... it's Safe Mode. It only loads the very basic files in order to boot. As to System Restore, unless someone has disabled the service that controls SysRestore then it shouldn't effect it either.

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Using msconfig to disable programs at startup should not have any effect on Safe Mode, because...well... it's Safe Mode. It only loads the very basic files in order to boot. As to System Restore, unless someone has disabled the service that controls SysRestore then it shouldn't effect it either.

agree 100% and system restore and safe mode features are not in the startup tab

on her laptop I noticed she had a red shield from windows security center I mentioned it to her but she assured me she had a "working antivirus" application and continued to use limewire LOL there was problems with other pc's on the wireless network as well soon after.

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Some people you just can't help. Using the startup tab in msconfig won't have some kind of delayed reaction - the effects are there at the next reboot. It certainly does not affect system restore or the being able to use safe mode.

Viruses do however.

on her laptop I noticed she had a red shield from windows security center I mentioned it to her but she assured me she had a "working antivirus" application and continued to use limewire LOL there was problems with other pc's on the wireless network as well soon after.

All the signs are right there....

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I always uncheck everything in msconfig>startup except anti-virus and gadgets. Was nice to have a more user friendly interface in Vista Windows Defender but they chucked that in Win7 so its back to msconfig. Anything that is a helper for your graphics/sound cards or touchpad doesn't need to start up unless you need extra controls to start each time. Sometimes Lexmark crapware will not print if you disable in services, but the one in msconfig can usually go. But NVIDIA drivers can go from services and msconfig with no prob.

Think of anything in the msconfig as a free rider on your ram.

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Some people you just can't help. Using the startup tab in msconfig won't have some kind of delayed reaction - the effects are there at the next reboot. It certainly does not affect system restore or the being able to use safe mode.

Viruses do however.

All the signs are right there....

yup but try explaining that to a blonde with anger problems.....you try to help them out a little and get your head chewed off soon after.....just hope she reads this and figures out It had nothing to do with me.

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Sorry for posting in a little old thread.

But I wanted to tell the OP that I too had the same problem, the part where the computer wouldn't boot into safe mode.

It kept blue screening no matter what I tried.

The only thing that I could attribute it to was a Google Ad virus that was going around at the time (about a month or so ago).

It used old security loopholes in Acrobat Reader and infected my computer with a virus and froze it up immediately.

Adobe Acrobat Reader flashed on my screen for about half a second before this had happened, and then all of a sudden my computer crashed.

We had thought it was the harddrive just failing (it was an older pc), but infact it was this virus.

**And I do agree about the limewire thing, get rid of that crap. Torrents and Rapidshare is where it's at. :D

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