Re: 891711/MS05-002 Updated (fixed) for Win9x

From: PCR (pcrrcp_at_netzero.net)
Date: 04/13/05 

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:20:36 -0400

Unless I'm batty, the old one went into the same Registry key as the new
one, & visa versa. So, you should be able to use the following trick to
get rid of the unchecked one...

If you have an item in "MSConfig, Startup tab" duplicated, but one is
checked & the other(s) are not, check them all & click "Apply, OK". It
will ask that you reboot. Answer "No". You will be left with just one,
if they were true duplicates. "Then you should either uninstall the
programs you don't want loaded or use their setup/config programs to
disable the parts you don't want loaded", says Richard G. Harper (MVP
MPS-D). But if it doesn't work, or you have an unchecked one without a
duplicate, then...

MSConfig keeps it in Startup, just in case you want to check it again.
It has not been loaded to run, as Ctrl-Alt-Del shows. It has been moved
to a Minus (-) Key in the Registry. To remove it from the Registry, you
may navigate to the Key, and delete the entry under it. That will also
remove it from MSConfig Startup, where you will no longer be able to
check it. It's probably under one of these Keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
-
^... That minus sign wrapped away from "RunServices-".

Also here:
"C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\Disabled Startup Items"
"START, Run, Win.ini". Delete any 'norun' entries under the [Windows]
section.

You would navigate to each key, by clicking the plus signs in the left
pane. When you see "Run-", click it and look in the right pane, for what
looks like the one your looking for. R-Clk it in the right pane and
select "delete". However, first: "Registry menu, Export Registry File".
This will create a .reg file of that Minus Key, which you may run (by
clicking) to undo the delete you are about to do. All of that can more
easily be done with
http://www.pcmag.com/ ' RegEdit+, which has a customizable "Favorites"
list, which includes those Minus Keys. It also has automatic "undo".
Registry Detective is another worthy program freely downloadable there.
StartupCop may really be what you need, also there.

Watch out, keep the LoadPowerProfiles, and, I guess, any virus scanner
duplicates. 

-- 
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
news:P4KdnZ-02o_KB8HfRVn-2g@giganews.com...
| "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
| news:OrzE2d6PFHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| > I am not seeing that here.
| >
| > I have just installed the new KB891711 together with KB890923 on to
a Win
| > Me system with IE SP1 and the original version of KB891711
installed.  I
| > no longer see KB891711 as a running process when using Ctrl-Alt-Del.
|
| My system didn't have problems with the old one, so it was still
enabled when I
| updated.
|
| Does not appear under CTL-ALT-DEL.
|
| Does appear under Process Explorer.
|
| Still appears under Startup in MSCONFIG.
|
| Also updated my son's machine, one which appeared to have problems
with the old
| one, so I'd disabled it via MSCONFIG.
|
| As above, except that it now appears TWICE under Startup in MSCONFIG.
|
| One enabled, the other disabled.
|
| Off hand, it appears that if it's disabled when you do the update, the
disabled
| entry remains in MSCONFIG.
|
|     - Bill
|
|

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