If these are just programs you need to load at startup, just create a shortcut to the program in your Startup folder.

But how would you get it back in the msconfig startup box to check.
That's an excellent question that has plague me in the past.

Anyone know?



Steve

Don't know.  I think, if you ever need the program/file at "startup" it will probably generate itself into the msconfig startup box as it is still on my computer.  At least that was my experience with a program/file called, AolAcsDaemon1, which is created when  AOL 9.0 is loaded.   I have a desktop running Win98SE, just like the Laptop mentioned in my previous post, and I deliberately deleted AolAcsDaemon1.  The next time I brought up AOL 9.0, it recreated that file and put it into the msconfig box, unchecked. Doesn't need it at startup, but evidently somewhere along the line it may be needed.  Don't know why it's in the "startup box".  This is the description of AolAcsDaemon1 which I was able to find from www.lafn.org/webconnect/mentor/startup/PENINDEX.HTM : 

Startup items are loaded from a variety of locations...primarily from several different keys in the registry as well as from other Windows files.  Most of these (with a very few exceptions) will appear in the startup tab of MSCONFIG which is nothing more than a list of sorts of the programs loaded at startup regardless, from where they load and which enables managing startup programs from a single location.  Placing a shortcut in the Startup folder should automatically generate the MSCONFIG listing.

Thanks Dan.