Thread: MSCONFIG and a Problem.....
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Old 24-05-2004, 10:38   #3
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Re: MSCONFIG and a Problem.....
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Originally Posted by porpoise
I have had a major problem recently, thinking it was sasser and maybe mydoom.
I have finally after 6 hours last evening and 3 hours this morning traced that I had a dialer.exe installed which was causing the problem, of course as I am on cable modem it couldn't dial. I have now run msconfig and found 4 entries which are blank in the start up item and command list, although they are ticked to start up. Can I safely remove the ticks and stop them starting? as they appear to be nothing ? Any help / advice would be appreciated.
Yes, as long as the start-up items are not vital, such as a firewall etc, you're fine
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