This isnt the right place but bollocks to it.

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Basically, I'm getting a continous error message on startup, thats spawning like 800 threads and I just cant do anything about it fast enough to stop it, so booting to safe mode and stopping the program from starting( its a legitimate program, not a virus or anything dodgy ) via msconfig.

However, the changes I make via msconfig are not taking place when I reboot.
This, as you may have guessed, is a bit of a bugger.

Any ideas on how to get it to **** the fuck off and die of aids?
 

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A long shot but........can you do a system restore when in safe mode? Go back to an earlier date, although can't you do that when XP is booting, I think so.
 

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fully uninstall the program from safemode?
 

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Unfortunately when it installs it installs another app thats basically a diagnostic, and its that specific program that is causing the errors, and worse, I need the programs installed for various purposes.

In the past when I've encountered this problem, its been 1-2 popups at worst, and I've disabled the diagnostics program, but 800 windows and the pc slowing down so slow when you click start and come back 30 mins later and its just popped up, its a wee bit of a problem.

Gonna try uninstalling, reinstalling and at that point editing msconfig.
Thanks for the replies ^_^
 

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Did you make sure that Selective Startup is selected on the General tab in msconfig instead of Normal Startup? Although it should've asked you if you wanted to revert back to normal after a successful boot...
 

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Yeah selective startup is enabled, the problem is continuing though, I uninstall it, reboot, reinstall and it, I've even disabled startup items from running via msconfig, but reinstalling seems to reenable it.

I cant find the right registry area, does anyone know where the startup items are in the registry?
 

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
 

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caLLous said:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
 

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rename / move the executable file?
 

caLLous

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Nath, did you put those spaces in to take the piss or could you not get rid of them either? :(
 

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Yeah I couldn't either - what's that about eh?
 

caLLous

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It seems vb forces a space after 50 chars or something...

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uninstalling the program seems to be the only way at the moment.

:/

Don't have time to monkey around with it today and I'm in germany tomorrow, will try and see whats up w/ it on tuesday.
 

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No legitimate program should act they way that this one seems to be acting...
 

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caLLous said:
No legitimate program should act they way that this one seems to be acting...

Exactly, whats the program called/do? there will be an alternative somewhere,
also sounds exactly like a virus a friend of mine had that I had to remove, basically it attached itself via registry to a program and spammed hundreds of new windows to grind the system to a halt, was a bitch to get rid off also iirc.
 

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You can also try HiJackThis, which is very effective at listing all types of "hijack" used by various nasty programs.

Download from here.
 

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