SillyDog701

[Dickerson]

Whenever I start up my PC (Win98, 400MHz, PII), I get the following programs that start up, but are not located in the start up folder. I know they are there because they are running in the Task Manager.

Em_exec
Javarun (This one always produces the dreaded "Program not responding" box)
Starter
Winpppoverethernet

I can close all of them via teh Task Manager, and it does not effect the system operation. Therefor, since they just chew up memory, I'd like to figure out a way to disable their start up options.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance...

Michael

[Shark Daddy]

Open Run through the Start Menu and type in msconfig. Select the Startup tab, and kick some butt.

[Dickerson]

Open Run through the Start Menu and type in msconfig. Select the Startup tab, and kick some butt.

BUT, before I do that, can you tell me what those file do? Will killing those start up files have any effect (and I can see none) on my system?

Michael

[Shark Daddy]

Em_Exec is something for Logitech. I have it disabled on my Win98 system, but you might want it. It might be the Logitech control that appears as a W (Wingman Profiler) in your systray. I don't know what the other files are. Check the path that is lead to under each file, and if it seems important, leave it be. Be warned that some startup commands that look like they are needed can also be for viruses. I'd check for those too.

[Fulvio]

Whenever I start up my PC (Win98, 400MHz, PII), I get the following programs that start up, but are not located in the start up folder. I know they are there because they are running in the Task Manager.

Em_exec
Javarun (This one always produces the dreaded "Program not responding" box)
Starter
Winpppoverethernet

I can close all of them via teh Task Manager, and it does not effect the system operation. Therefor, since they just chew up memory, I'd like to figure out a way to disable their start up options.

Any ideas?

The only Starter that I can think of , is of a Startup Manager.
I have in my Startup, System Tray, which is essential, and things necessary for AntiVirus. As SD said your mouse stuff may or may not need to be on. The bottom one, with one,two or three p's do not come up in a search. Do you have broadband? One to test is take everything but System Tray off, and then add, or subtract one at a time.

tag fixed by Antony

[Mr. Tinkles]

Do you happen to use a Logitech mouse driver? If I recall from a previous system that had a cordless logitech mouse and keyboard, the em_exec is for that.

By the way. If you really want to get dirty in the registry and see things that are not in the startup folder, you can check the following registry locations. They are kind of nice because they frequently give the exact path to the executable.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Also, I don't know if this file is still valid for the more modern Windows platforms since it is a holdover from Win3x, but it did work in the 9x family. If you have a file called winstart.bat in the windows directory, it will run anything in it on startup.

So, startup folder, registry, winstart.bat, autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini load and run lines. All the places an application can start from .