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Changing Startup Programs Order

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Hi. Just curious on how to change the order that my startup programs. ie. cable connection and important stuff first. I am running XP service pack 2.

thx in advance
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Hi. Just curious on how to change the order that my startup programs. ie. cable connection and important stuff first. I am running XP service pack 2.

thx in advance
I think that the programs that are in the run entry in the registry run before ones in the startup folder in the startmenu, so you could put all the ones you want to load first into the registry, and the other ones in the startmenu.

The registry folders you want are :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run

You could also try disabling unimportant startup items using the System Configuration Utility (go start->run and type msconfig to load)

and P.S. remember to back up your registry first and all that stuff
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Re: Changing Startup Programs Order

My question has to be why! ,you normally cant start using any of them untill they are all finished loading !mine anyway
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thx steve, msconfig was great
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