Where oh where is my msconfig.exe?
Do I still have it and it's been hidden by an installed app or is something else going on?
Thursday, March 20, 2008 by BigDogBigFeet | Discussion: Personal Computing
Hi all,
Well as a result of Po's thread Virtual Memory Question I've discovered that when I click on start, run and type in msconfig and press enter ...... nothing happens. I fired up explorer and searched my windows sub, no go and did a system Search twice and again no go. Did some web searching and discovered one of 2 possibilities an installed app has it hidden from my through a system key setting or in the worst case malware. At present I'm not suspecting malware. System has no other problems currently and it's possible any of these progs could have it hidden: Ad-Aware 2007 Free, SpyBot Search and Destroy (I'm new to both of these) I also have Tune-Up Utilities 2006 and please don't gasp, Norton System Works(well mostly, lol).
Anywho, I thought I'd post to see if anyone has some insight as to what's caused this and what Reg Key(s) might be involved. I'm thinking that's probably what's happened.
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yrag
Reply #82 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:44 PM
yes
yes
what???????
Reply #82 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:44 PM
Do I just check that?
yes
Do I allow for Indexing?
yes
Do I leave the setting to compress all files on disk on?
what???????
PoSmedley
Reply #83 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:46 PM
Sorry. Do I want to use the Compress Drive To Save Disk Space' setting?
*got rid of three more add-ons. Is that better?
Reply #83 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:46 PM
what???????
Sorry. Do I want to use the Compress Drive To Save Disk Space' setting?
*got rid of three more add-ons. Is that better?
yrag
Reply #84 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:57 PM
Reply #84 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:57 PM
If you're talking about the Windows Compression tool, leave it OFF.
atta boy....keep going
*got rid of three more add-ons. Is that better?
atta boy....keep going
DonDodds
Reply #85 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:57 PM
Reply #85 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:57 PM
That's up to you on the compression, Po'. It'll only smoosh down (technical terminology) the files you don't use a lot, and if you do need to use them, it only takes a couple of milliseconds to uncompress them.
DonDodds
Reply #86 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:58 PM
Wait. Why? I'd always been told it was fine.
Reply #86 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:58 PM
If you're talking about the Windows Compression tool, leave it OFF.
Wait. Why? I'd always been told it was fine.
PoSmedley
Reply #87 Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:09 PM
I guess that's it. When you click on your drice and click properties...at the bottom it gives you the option to compress files and allow for indexing.
Thanks.
Reply #87 Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:09 PM
If you're talking about the Windows Compression tool, leave it OFF.
I guess that's it. When you click on your drice and click properties...at the bottom it gives you the option to compress files and allow for indexing.
Thanks.
yrag
Reply #88 Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:13 PM
It was fine when the biggest HD out there was 1/10mb's. Now it's virtually unlimited....why waste the time and performance it takes to perform an un-needed process
Reply #88 Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:13 PM
Why? I'd always been told it was fine.
It was fine when the biggest HD out there was 1/10mb's. Now it's virtually unlimited....why waste the time and performance it takes to perform an un-needed process
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #89 Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:15 PM
Reply #89 Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:15 PM
Anyone post a solution yet for how to fix this problem? (no msconfig visible)
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #91 Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:51 PM
I don't have a logitech mouse driver and my startup folder is empty. I don't know what windows prefetch folder and windows prefetch files are. Where are they located? I need to know the path to the $temp$ folder you mentioned also. I have 2 different registry cleaners so I should be covered there.
Reply #91 Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:51 PM
ok here is what I did I uninstalled all my sd programs via sdc after uninstalling impulse. Still no go..
So I check startups and find a logitech mouse setpoint driver. Deleted it and uninstalled the program. Deleted all prefetch files in windows prefetch folder. ran %temp% and deleted all temp files in the temp folder. Then restarted the computer ... after the restart ran a reg cleaner called Clean My PC registry cleaner. Ran msconfig and it's back and everything is normal.
I suspect it is a conflict with maybe the set point driver for logitech caused the problem and it may have reacted with a sd program like impulse maybe?
Anyone else have any luck as this or running like wise programs?
So I check startups and find a logitech mouse setpoint driver. Deleted it and uninstalled the program. Deleted all prefetch files in windows prefetch folder. ran %temp% and deleted all temp files in the temp folder. Then restarted the computer ... after the restart ran a reg cleaner called Clean My PC registry cleaner. Ran msconfig and it's back and everything is normal.
I suspect it is a conflict with maybe the set point driver for logitech caused the problem and it may have reacted with a sd program like impulse maybe?
Anyone else have any luck as this or running like wise programs?
I don't have a logitech mouse driver and my startup folder is empty. I don't know what windows prefetch folder and windows prefetch files are. Where are they located? I need to know the path to the $temp$ folder you mentioned also. I have 2 different registry cleaners so I should be covered there.
eieio
Reply #92 Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:08 PM
Reply #92 Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:08 PM
BDBF,
Click on Start/Run .. type this into the box %systemroot%\prefetch .. hit OK .. that's prefetch
Click on Start/Run .. type this into the box %temp% .. hit OK .. that's temp folder
Click on Start/Run .. type this into the box %systemroot%\prefetch .. hit OK .. that's prefetch
Click on Start/Run .. type this into the box %temp% .. hit OK .. that's temp folder
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #93 Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:55 PM
Reply #93 Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:55 PM
Ok, My startup is empty. I deleted everything in prefetch and everything in temp. Rebooted and ran a reg cleaner rebooted again and no go. Problem still exists.
eieio
Reply #94 Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:02 AM
Reply #94 Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:02 AM
I did a system restore and got msconfig back .. along with fixing a couple other oddities. I'm guessing something I installed in the past 2 weeks caused the problem. Haven't re-installed Impulse yet .. but did update with SDC
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #95 Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:17 AM
Reply #95 Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:17 AM
I've use system restore points but, I can't get them to work. Windows won't restore using the restore points. Can this be done in Safe Mode or by booting to the recovery console?
yrag
Reply #96 Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:30 AM
Reply #96 Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:30 AM
I fired up a bench machine and installed everything related to Stardock....msconfig still shows and no other oddities show up.
Still think it's the permissions. Haven't heard back from John yet in regards to the fix I sent him....maybe it blew his machine up......
BigDogBigFeet- run #15 again and post results .....
Still think it's the permissions. Haven't heard back from John yet in regards to the fix I sent him....maybe it blew his machine up......
BigDogBigFeet- run #15 again and post results .....
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #97 Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:31 AM
Reply #97 Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:31 AM
Ok, I think this will do it. Looks the same as before.
yrag
Reply #98 Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:08 AM
Reply #98 Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:08 AM
OK. I need someone who 'fixed' (via restore or backup) the missing msconfig to run that and post the same snap.
eieio
Reply #100 Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:36 AM
Reply #100 Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:36 AM
Fixed with System Restore. here's Dependency Walker shot now:
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Reply #81 Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:41 PM
Okay, but it's running in an other but normal mode, right? When I re-boot after making changes, I get the pop-up. There is a box to check, so that the pop-up doesn't coma up again. Do I just check that?
While I'm here...I'm almost done with all this reformatting, etc. Questions..
Do I leave the setting to compress all files on disk on?
Do I allow for Indexing? (I heard this just uses more resources and doesn't make any noticeable difference when on.)