January 2005
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
25h 59m
English
Content preview from Windows XP in a Nutshell, Second Edition
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Name
System Configuration Utility —
\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\msconfig.exe
Synopsis
Selectively enable or disable several startup options for diagnostic/troubleshooting purposes.
To Open
Command Prompt →
msconfig
Description
The System Configuration Utility allows you to selectively enable or disable various settings that affect system startup (see Figure 4-96). For the most part, this tool was designed for an earlier version of Windows and therefore isn’t too useful in Windows XP. However, it does provide a few options not available elsewhere:
Figure 4-96. The System Configuration Utility lets you stop certain programs from loading automatically when Windows starts
- General tab → Expand File
Provides a graphical interface to the File Expansion Utility (
expand.exe), discussed earlier in this chapter.- WIN.INI tabs
These two tabs let you turn on or off any settings in either the
system.iniorwin.inifiles, respectively. Note that these files aren’t actually used by Windows XP and are only kept around to support old Windows applications.- BOOT.INI tab
Displays the contents of the
boot.inifile, used to display the startup menu in a multiple-boot environment, as well as several options that affect the boot menu. For example, if there is more than one operating system installed on your computer, you can use the Set as Default button to choose the default OS and the Move Up button to rearrange ...
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