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CNET Help.com — Community directory: “Items that are disabled are listed in the registry in one of the following locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SharedTools\MSConfig\startupfolder”

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How do I clear or clean out my Windows XP msconfig selection start-up menu? A lot of old programs that have been deleted off my PC still show up there.

–Submitted by: Drew S. of Baltimore, Maryland

First, a word of warning: This may require you to edit the registry. Doing this incorrectly can cause permanent damage to your operating system and should therefore be done with extreme caution.

1) Click the Start menu.

2) Go to Run.

3) Type regedit and hit Enter.

Now navigate through the registry just like you navigate your hard drive in Windows.

1. In the left pane, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run

2. In the right pane, find the name of a program you want to remove from your msconfig (look at msconfig if need be), and click it.

3. Hit the Delete key and click Yes in the resulting dialog.

4. Close msconfig (if it is open), then reopen it. If the file appears, it is located somewhere else; if it doesn’t appear, repeat the above steps for the rest of the ones you want removed from msconfig.

5. If it is still there, go back to the top of the tree in the left pane (making sure you hit the minus button on the left of each folder to collapse them).

6. Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run (note that it is local_machine now instead of current_user).

7. Find the file in the right side and delete it in the same manner as before.

8. Close and reopen msconfig again and verify that it is gone.

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