system.ini startup programs

**coldturkey** · January 27th, 2002, 06:14

[386Enh]
device=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\dva.386
device=*vshare
ebios=*ebios
device=*vshare
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13

heres a snippet from my system.ini file. How can i find out which programs these link to? i need to get rid of some of them.

**Jan** · January 27th, 2002, 06:18

Ummmm.....why do you need to?

Don't mess with system.ini unless you know what you are doing!

**Akalon** · January 27th, 2002, 06:58

Delete all of them, they are useless

.... that was a joke btw

**coldturkey** · January 27th, 2002, 14:59

Originally posted by Jan
Ummmm.....why do you need to?

Don't mess with system.ini unless you know what you are doing!

i know what im doing, i've done it before. Now for some reason its using abbreviations for file paths. I need to get rid of some of the crap programs that mess up my memory on startup that i dont need. I know you need Explorer, systray, smreminder and rnaapp, i wouldnt be dumb enough to delete those.

**Akalon** · January 27th, 2002, 19:39

Go to Start > Run > and type 'msconfig' > OK

**coldturkey** · January 27th, 2002, 20:36

Originally posted by Akalon
Go to Start > Run > and type 'msconfig' > OK

Thanks Man

**Giancarlo** · January 27th, 2002, 20:38

Yeah, also delete the autoexec.bat file... it is a virus and is useless aswell.

**niv** · January 27th, 2002, 20:39

And config.sys. We all know that HIMEM.SYS is an extremely contagious virus.

Akalon, if only there was MSCONFIG for Win2000, I have to do it manually.

**coldturkey** · January 27th, 2002, 20:49

lol what are you on about?

**coldturkey** · January 27th, 2002, 20:52

Oh, and while im here i my aswell ask a few more questions.

What on earth is the program "mdm" and which programs (excluding "explorer") do you need in the memory to successfully run windows... ie w/o cracshing.

**Akalon** · January 27th, 2002, 20:58

Hayama, just curious but would this work?

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~gcis/MSCONFIG.EXE

**is0lized** · January 28th, 2002, 13:28

Originally posted by coldturkey
Oh, and while im here i my aswell ask a few more questions.

What on earth is the program "mdm" and which programs (excluding "explorer") do you need in the memory to successfully run windows... ie w/o cracshing.

i think all you need is explorer.exe

Originally posted by Akalon
Hayama, just curious but would this work?

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~gcis/MSCONFIG.EXE

is that possible to use that on win2k?

**Canuckkev** · January 28th, 2002, 15:16

YES, it is. I got it yesterday when I was tweaking my Win2k install. I just stuck it in my windows folder, and now I can get to it by typing msconfig in run. Easy. Now, if I can get winipcfg.exe...