Guest Jay Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Every time I boot up I get a "#" in the msconfig startup list. Even if I disable it and then reboot, it comes back enabled. It seems to me that it is some sort of trojen horse or virus...has anyone ever seen this before? Does anyone have a solution?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: msconfig startup issue "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2724522F-5577-4F7F-9752-B714C8376D95@microsoft.com... > Every time I boot up I get a "#" in the msconfig startup list. Even if I > disable it and then reboot, it comes back enabled. It seems to me that it > is > some sort of trojen horse or virus...has anyone ever seen this before? > Does > anyone have a solution? You may have insufficient access rights to this registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run If the value "msconfig" is there then you can try deleting it manually.
Guest Rich Barry Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: msconfig startup issue Jay, go to Start>Run type: regedit click Ok. Navigate to HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\run, run once etc. Look in each run folder for the entry and delete it from the rt pane if there. You can also look in Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\run, run once etc "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2724522F-5577-4F7F-9752-B714C8376D95@microsoft.com... > Every time I boot up I get a "#" in the msconfig startup list. Even if I > disable it and then reboot, it comes back enabled. It seems to me that it > is > some sort of trojen horse or virus...has anyone ever seen this before? > Does > anyone have a solution?
Guest Jay Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: msconfig startup issue Thank you, this did the trick. It was actually in the Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\ area of the registry. There was an entry that said "load" in the Name column and "#" in the Data column. Deleting this entry has solved the problem...not sure how or why that entry was in there to begin with??? Anyway, thank you for your help. "Rich Barry" wrote: > Jay, go to Start>Run type: regedit click Ok. Navigate to > HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current > Version\run, run once etc. Look in each run folder for the entry and > delete it from the rt pane if there. > You can also look in > Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\run, run once > etc > > > > "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:2724522F-5577-4F7F-9752-B714C8376D95@microsoft.com... > > Every time I boot up I get a "#" in the msconfig startup list. Even if I > > disable it and then reboot, it comes back enabled. It seems to me that it > > is > > some sort of trojen horse or virus...has anyone ever seen this before? > > Does > > anyone have a solution? > > >
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