I have windows 2000 professional, and I am looking for a way to access the start up menu.?

God only knows what I have running at start up and I am looking for a way to access that menu and control what is running at startup...any suggestions would be very helpful.

I have windows 2000 professional, and I am looking for a way to access the start up menu.?windows media player 11

The following involves editing the registry and can be very dangerous if you don't know what your doing. That being said:

Click Start then Run and type Regedit.

Click OK

double click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

then Software

then Microsoft

then Windows

then Current Version

then Run.

The entries you find in there are what the Registry starts automatically when Windows boots.

Look carefully through the list on the right side for programs that you want to remove. Be careful what you delete. Do not delete anything that you are not absolutely positive about.

There is one other place that you should look.

Right Click on Start then choose Explore All Users.

An Explorer window will open.

Double click on Programs then double click on Startup.

The icons in there will start their respective programs for anyone who logs into that computer.

I have windows 2000 professional, and I am looking for a way to access the start up menu.?microsoft publisher internet explorer

ok u can see it on control panel%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;admisistrative tools%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;services.
Go to Start, Run, type in "msconfig". Look at the Services and Startup tabs. Uncheck the ones you don't want to trun.
Try Hijack this, it lets you remove run keys from the registry, make sure you can identify what you are removing. http:\\www.majorgeeks.com

I like using regedit, click run, regedit

what you want to look for is under

local machine-software-micrsoft-

windows-curent version-run

and

curent user-software-micrsoft-

windows-curent version-run

that is where windows looks to run the startup items

you have to do this manually because windows 2k does not have the msconfig utility, be very carefull about what you delete under the run key, make sure you can identify what you are removing, stay away from the rest, the registry is the back bone of windows configuration