I was troubleshooting a server yesterday and a came across an easy way to clean boot into Vista, or 2008. When I say clean boot I mean that Windows starts without any 3rd party services running.
To do it, startup MSCONFIG, (Start then run…type msconfig.exe)
Once it launches, move over to the services tab:
Then move down, and hide Microsoft services (We don’t want to disable those)
After you do that, click the “Disable Services” button on the right:
Now click OK, and reboot. When Windows restarts, no 3rd party services will be running.
Once you have completed your troubleshooting you can reverse the process to turn them back on.
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Thanks for the tip steve. I did not know thehttp://www.yahoo.comy made that update to msconfig.
Good tip steve. Now I don’t have to dig through services.msc to find all of the services to disable, and then re-enable.
Um…Steve…that has been in Windows since I believe XP. I just checked and I found it in XP, and 2003.
You are right. I never checked to see if those versions of windows have it…and indeed they do.
Strange. I never saw that either in XP, or even Vista for that matter…and I use ms config all the time to remote startup items. Thanks for the time saver