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Topic: Wiz: Do you recall? |
Dale Gray
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Posted 15 May 2008 10:47 am |
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Do you recall a program that had 3 letters in it's name that ran from a dos prompt and would look at an application line by line and would delete any line you wanted to? If so would it work with XP? Dale
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Wiz Feinberg
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 15 May 2008 4:31 pm
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OK
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 17 May 2008 1:37 pm
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| I remember the old "Edit" program that could be used with the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to modify those. The Edit could be used on other batch (.bat) files too. |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 17 May 2008 1:44 pm
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I do remember one called "Edlin.exe" that would do a line by line DOS edit, directly from a DOS prompt. I also used the DOS "Edit.com" that Jack referred to, which had a graphic interface of sorts. I just happen to own copies of both, in case anybody wants to try them out. I also have DosShell!
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 17 May 2008 2:38 pm
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That isn't it. May have to get an old pc out of storage an take a look. Also have either one of you been to "Answersthatwork.com"? The TUT looks interesting.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 18 May 2008 2:55 am
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| I haven't been to that site, I'll have to check it out. |
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 18 May 2008 7:12 am
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Also how could you delete an entire line in msconfig/startup?
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 18 May 2008 8:20 am
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| Use the Edit program and either delete it or "rem" (remark) it out put "rem" at the start of the line. e.g. "rem set abc 25" Then when the bat file runs it will not execute the set command, but if you want to later put it back in all you have to do is run the Edit program and delete the "rem" part (and save the file). |
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 18 May 2008 11:29 am
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I am unable to delete a line in startup.
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 18 May 2008 1:29 pm
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| You can't delete something from the startup with an edit type program. If you can't disable it with "msconfig", then you will have to edit the registry and delete it that way. |
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Dale Gray
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 18 May 2008 2:10 pm
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Ok
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John Cipriano
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Posted 14 Jun 2008 9:40 pm
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Spybot S&D has a good startup entry editor, and is one of the few anti-spyware programs that I recommend to people. HijackThis is also good, but a bit of a loaded gun if you haven't used it before.
There's a lot of programs dedicated to this very task, actually. But msconfig will take care of most things, except ones like "ctfmon" that is actually part of the operating system (since IE7 came out I think).
The problem is that there isn't actually any file that you could edit line-by-line. The registry is actually a set of (I think) five binary files that store config settings in a form that is not human-readable. Which is why you have to use regedit or something similar. There are a few places in the registry where programs can set entries to start on boot.
There is also the "startup" folder in Start > All Programs as well. |
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