msconfig question

[John Barnett - MVP]

You will always get the 'selective mode' warning when you
make alterations to the startup tab in msconfig. It is an
easy way of politely telling you that you have disabled
items for troubleshooting purposes. After a while the
message will disappear as it gets used to the items you
have unchecked not being loaded. The warning is to remind
you. It has no detremental effect on the way windows
works.
Explorer.exe is the main windows shell and is required by
windows to run, so you will not be able to disable this
function. Try uninstalling Norton AV and see if that
makes any difference. If this cures the problem then you
have two options: either reinstall Norton AV and hope the
problem doesn't return (although you could check for any
application updates from the norton web site - i'm
meaning updates to the program, not virus definition
updates) Alternatively, you could change your anti virus
software. One good one, and incidentally it is free, is
AVG anti virus available from www.grisoft.com You need to
give them some details, i.e., email address etc and name
and grisoft will send you a product code. When you get
the product code just install the software.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>Under the Startup tab in msconfig, I've tried to shut-
off: msmsgs
>(messenger?), AOL8.0 (don't use AOL and I've uninstalled
it from my pc) and
>MS Office (understand it is a memory hog & doesn't need
to startup each
>time).
>Each time I've unchecked these, when I restart it warns
that I'm now
>starting in "Selective" mode. Is it OK to run WinXP in
Selective mode
>instead of Normal?
>I have 2 programs I'm trying to stop from stalling on
exit from WinXP: ccApp
>(Norton AV?) and explore.exe (or explorer.exe), but not
sure that's possible
>from the Startup tab in msconfig.
>I have WinXP Home (version 5.1) SP1.
>Any help appreciated
>
>
>.
>

[CB]

John,
This might be a stupid question: I'm on the AVG site now, and it says it
cannot be installed on any networked environment. Does that mean because
I'm connecting through DSL via earthlink that I can't use it?


"John Barnett - MVP" > wrote in message
...
> You will always get the 'selective mode' warning when you
> make alterations to the startup tab in msconfig. It is an
> easy way of politely telling you that you have disabled
> items for troubleshooting purposes. After a while the
> message will disappear as it gets used to the items you
> have unchecked not being loaded. The warning is to remind
> you. It has no detremental effect on the way windows
> works.
> Explorer.exe is the main windows shell and is required by
> windows to run, so you will not be able to disable this
> function. Try uninstalling Norton AV and see if that
> makes any difference. If this cures the problem then you
> have two options: either reinstall Norton AV and hope the
> problem doesn't return (although you could check for any
> application updates from the norton web site - i'm
> meaning updates to the program, not virus definition
> updates) Alternatively, you could change your anti virus
> software. One good one, and incidentally it is free, is
> AVG anti virus available from www.grisoft.com You need to
> give them some details, i.e., email address etc and name
> and grisoft will send you a product code. When you get
> the product code just install the software.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> John Barnett - MVP
> Associate Expert
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Under the Startup tab in msconfig, I've tried to shut-
> off: msmsgs
> >(messenger?), AOL8.0 (don't use AOL and I've uninstalled
> it from my pc) and
> >MS Office (understand it is a memory hog & doesn't need
> to startup each
> >time).
> >Each time I've unchecked these, when I restart it warns
> that I'm now
> >starting in "Selective" mode. Is it OK to run WinXP in
> Selective mode
> >instead of Normal?
> >I have 2 programs I'm trying to stop from stalling on
> exit from WinXP: ccApp
> >(Norton AV?) and explore.exe (or explorer.exe), but not
> sure that's possible
> >from the Startup tab in msconfig.
> >I have WinXP Home (version 5.1) SP1.
> >Any help appreciated
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Chek]

John,
AVG will work with a DSL connection, no problem.
It won't work on a multi-PC network with shared drives,
is what I think they mean by that warning.
Chek


"CB" > wrote in message
ink.net...
> John,
> This might be a stupid question: I'm on the AVG site now, and it says it
> cannot be installed on any networked environment. Does that mean because
> I'm connecting through DSL via earthlink that I can't use it?
>
>
> "John Barnett - MVP" > wrote in message
> ...
> > You will always get the 'selective mode' warning when you
> > make alterations to the startup tab in msconfig. It is an
> > easy way of politely telling you that you have disabled
> > items for troubleshooting purposes. After a while the
> > message will disappear as it gets used to the items you
> > have unchecked not being loaded. The warning is to remind
> > you. It has no detremental effect on the way windows
> > works.
> > Explorer.exe is the main windows shell and is required by
> > windows to run, so you will not be able to disable this
> > function. Try uninstalling Norton AV and see if that
> > makes any difference. If this cures the problem then you
> > have two options: either reinstall Norton AV and hope the
> > problem doesn't return (although you could check for any
> > application updates from the norton web site - i'm
> > meaning updates to the program, not virus definition
> > updates) Alternatively, you could change your anti virus
> > software. One good one, and incidentally it is free, is
> > AVG anti virus available from www.grisoft.com You need to
> > give them some details, i.e., email address etc and name
> > and grisoft will send you a product code. When you get
> > the product code just install the software.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > John Barnett - MVP
> > Associate Expert
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Under the Startup tab in msconfig, I've tried to shut-
> > off: msmsgs
> > >(messenger?), AOL8.0 (don't use AOL and I've uninstalled
> > it from my pc) and
> > >MS Office (understand it is a memory hog & doesn't need
> > to startup each
> > >time).
> > >Each time I've unchecked these, when I restart it warns
> > that I'm now
> > >starting in "Selective" mode. Is it OK to run WinXP in
> > Selective mode
> > >instead of Normal?
> > >I have 2 programs I'm trying to stop from stalling on
> > exit from WinXP: ccApp
> > >(Norton AV?) and explore.exe (or explorer.exe), but not
> > sure that's possible
> > >from the Startup tab in msconfig.
> > >I have WinXP Home (version 5.1) SP1.
> > >Any help appreciated
> > >
> > >
> > >.
> > >
>
>

[CB]

Thanks, Chek!! I downloaded the trial 7.0 version, but decided not to
install it until I heard back on this.


"Chek" > wrote in message
...
> John,
> AVG will work with a DSL connection, no problem.
> It won't work on a multi-PC network with shared drives,
> is what I think they mean by that warning.
> Chek
>
>
> "CB" > wrote in message
> ink.net...
> > John,
> > This might be a stupid question: I'm on the AVG site now, and it says it
> > cannot be installed on any networked environment. Does that mean
because
> > I'm connecting through DSL via earthlink that I can't use it?
> >
> >
> > "John Barnett - MVP" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > You will always get the 'selective mode' warning when you
> > > make alterations to the startup tab in msconfig. It is an
> > > easy way of politely telling you that you have disabled
> > > items for troubleshooting purposes. After a while the
> > > message will disappear as it gets used to the items you
> > > have unchecked not being loaded. The warning is to remind
> > > you. It has no detremental effect on the way windows
> > > works.
> > > Explorer.exe is the main windows shell and is required by
> > > windows to run, so you will not be able to disable this
> > > function. Try uninstalling Norton AV and see if that
> > > makes any difference. If this cures the problem then you
> > > have two options: either reinstall Norton AV and hope the
> > > problem doesn't return (although you could check for any
> > > application updates from the norton web site - i'm
> > > meaning updates to the program, not virus definition
> > > updates) Alternatively, you could change your anti virus
> > > software. One good one, and incidentally it is free, is
> > > AVG anti virus available from www.grisoft.com You need to
> > > give them some details, i.e., email address etc and name
> > > and grisoft will send you a product code. When you get
> > > the product code just install the software.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >
> > > John Barnett - MVP
> > > Associate Expert
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >Under the Startup tab in msconfig, I've tried to shut-
> > > off: msmsgs
> > > >(messenger?), AOL8.0 (don't use AOL and I've uninstalled
> > > it from my pc) and
> > > >MS Office (understand it is a memory hog & doesn't need
> > > to startup each
> > > >time).
> > > >Each time I've unchecked these, when I restart it warns
> > > that I'm now
> > > >starting in "Selective" mode. Is it OK to run WinXP in
> > > Selective mode
> > > >instead of Normal?
> > > >I have 2 programs I'm trying to stop from stalling on
> > > exit from WinXP: ccApp
> > > >(Norton AV?) and explore.exe (or explorer.exe), but not
> > > sure that's possible
> > > >from the Startup tab in msconfig.
> > > >I have WinXP Home (version 5.1) SP1.
> > > >Any help appreciated
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >.
> > > >
> >
> >
>
>