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RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

mitzibishi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:02:05 GMT

"Most people's time is valuable and they have better things to do with it"

looks like it

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

MartenReed — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:51:24 GMT

CCleaner FTW. And don't forget the now popular JK Defrag.

Doubt I could live without them :)

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

andydods — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:07:15 GMT

Thank you Slips, for coming to my defence.

Looking at your original post mitzibishi, you complain about all the pop-ups/UAC controls and lack of Run. If you had followed the link and read the information contained therein, you would know that the program I recommended is a very powerful tool to modify the way Vista looks and behaves without resorting to delving into the Registry. This includes stopping the UAC (though this can be done inside windows) and placing Run in the menu, but it does much more too.

CCleaner that was recommended is also a powerful tool for safely cleaning out the Registry, and I think you'll find that many experienced users of this forum have it installed.

I've been building systems for family and friends for a dozen years, had all windows from 95 onwards and consider myself to have a reasonable knowledge of computing, and yet I still use this program, so it was not recommended because I thought you were a noob. Looking at your previous posts, you don't display any rudeness, so I can only assume that you thought we were being condescending, whereas it was an attempt to recommend a genuinely useful program to a fellow PC user.

If you don't want to use these programs fair enough, but it is the manner in which you go about this that riles people. To suggest that these programs "infect" your PC, and that they are "crap" without even checking them out properly shows a lack of respect for peoples knowledge that won't be appreciated in these forums.

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Slipstreem — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:50:50 GMT

You can't reasonably expect to be nannied through every step of everything. Most people's time is valuable and they have better things to do with it, especially when the advice given here is free and nobody gets paid for giving it. You've been given good referrals for software relating to the configuration of your OS. That's basically what you asked for in the original post unless everybody has interpreted it incorrectly, so I fail to see how you can call the suggestions "off-topic".

Just like all other M$ OSes, Vista is horrendously bad at doing its own housekeeping and soon starts to choke on its own faeces. Ccleaner can be a massive help in that area and can speed your machine up dramatically as well as freeing up unnecessarily wasted hard drive space. It can do many of the things automatically in seconds that you could spend hours farting around trying to do manually. It's much safer than playing around with stuff manually to be honest.

In the post relating to TweakVI, the poster provided a live link to the official website that places you within a couple of clicks of an in-depth explanation of exactly what it is and what it does and makes it clear that it's a very powerful configuration tool specifically modelled for Vista, and there are probably tutorials that can just as easily be found on Google for it.

As I said, if you genuinely want to learn something then go and Google the suggestions and decide for yourself whether you want them on your system or not. You can't reasonably expect everyone who answers your posts to write you a personal 1,000 word tutorial justifying their suggestion and giving you a step-by-step walk-through. Why should they bother when you can look it up yourself for nothing in a matter of seconds with a free search engine?

People have very kindly planted the seeds for you. Now you have the choice of either ignoring the information or looking into it yourself.

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

mitzibishi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:33:21 GMT

"Yes. Your own ignorance and rudeness. Your attitude stinks quite frankly. Go and Google what the guys suggested before accusing them of being thickies intent on deliberately sabotaging your PC. If you know so much better than anybody else here does, then why come here looking for answers in the first place?"

Excuse me but why should i google these referalls when they are totally off topic as ive said before & there is no information why they would be helpfull to me at this stage. so why should i?

+ if you prefer every1 to google out of here there would be no need for this public forum. in other forums where i do specialise eg. drinking alcholol, slothenleness & unkemped hygene, i would be eager to fuel other peoples minds with information.

i asked a simple question, it was answerred by the good people of micro mart forum which i am greatfull of, and i rate as a PC forum, and am humble in my noobness, but download referralls do need to be explained to me or i would expect them to be suspect

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

mitzibishi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:18:01 GMT

my 1st post never got through, but it basically said, its a new system, its my (educated, i wasnt a 6mnth ago but i consider myself just above noob staus at this moment) choice on OS n who are these guys above referring me to off topic downloads

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Slipstreem — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:36:06 GMT

Yes. Your own ignorance and rudeness. Your attitude stinks quite frankly. Go and Google what the guys suggested before accusing them of being thickies intent on deliberately sabotaging your PC. If you know so much better than anybody else here does, then why come here looking for answers in the first place?

Nuff said? :)

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

mitzibishi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:18:52 GMT

no ive got a new PC, wanted vista for future games n future stuff etc, n can wait till all the drivers are released to fix stuff, so i thought why not. Im sorry to see XP go & i can see already a few things wrong with vista & am furiously searching for drivers but other than that im quite happy, happier than getting XP now then in a few years having to pay again for Vista.

but i cant see why the dudes above are referring me to a download something that is not known to me, not needed by me as it is a brand new system, and totally off topic with no advice as to why i should be downloading this spludge onto my new PC.

Is there a problem with that?:alien:

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Slipstreem — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:57:48 GMT

More power to your elbow, Wiz! I have huge respect for the open-minded. :)

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Basil — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:04:57 GMT

[quote][b]-Wiz!- (26/07/2008)[/b][hr]As I use all three (XP, Vista and Linux) I can see the positives and negatives of each...:)[/quote]
Silence fool!
Linux has no negatives :P
For the penguin!

(I also multi boot, XP for games with various flavors of penguin for everything else)

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

-Wiz!- — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:42:26 GMT

As I use all three (XP, Vista and Linux) I can see the positives and negatives of each...:)

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Slipstreem — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:24:31 GMT

If he'd have upgraded from Vista to WinXP in the first place, this thread would never have happened. :P

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Basil — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:21:25 GMT

[quote][b]mitzibishi (26/07/2008)[/b][hr]anything else you can advise me to infect my puter with?[/quote]
Not really, seems you already have Vista. :P

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

-Wiz!- — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:07:50 GMT

Both the programs mention are good too. :)

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Slipstreem — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:16:02 GMT

[quote][b]mitzibishi (26/07/2008)[/b][hr]...but for the others anything else you can advise me to infect my puter with?
...do you think ill be downloading all your crap if i knew what MSCONFIG was for in the first place? who are you?![/quote]
Very mature! :)

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

mitzibishi — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:54:57 GMT

yeh ill do all that thanx for the info genuine people, but for the others anything else you can advise me to infect my puter with?

Start button, type Run, msconfig.

do you think ill be downloading all your crap if i knew what MSCONFIG was for in the first place? who are you?!

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

conrad101 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:20:54 GMT

Windows key + R is a shortcut to getting the run box - that would be the easiest way of getting there

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

andydods — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:04:21 GMT

And try Tweak VI, it allows all sorts of configuration malarky [url]http://www.totalidea.com/content/tweakvi/tweakvi-down.php[/url]

If you feel confident, turn off UAC too.

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

alex3410 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:44:18 GMT

Ccleaner is worth a download as it lets you do what you want and more, its free so worth a look

RE: just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

Grenville Grimace — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:09:49 GMT

Always remember that Google is your friend...

[url=http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_run_command.htm]Where is the Vista Run Command?[/url]

just upgraded to vista,how do i get to MSCONFIG?

mitzibishi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:28:31 GMT

just upgraded, its ok, running smooth on full settings, just a few things bug me, 1 the pop ups asking me if i want to do stuff ive already clicked on & where is the RUN option on the START button. i want to be able to run msconfig, msinfo etc like on XP.

How do i get to MSCONFIG on vista to stop all the quicklaunch crap