Saturday, October 4, 2008

Stop unwanted folders from popping up when you boot up

Here is a tool I found useful and note worthy yesterday. It’s a small Startup.exe Program/Shell applet created by “Mike Lin at http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml” that fixes “boot/Start-up” issues.

At work we imaged an operating system to speed up laptop rollouts. While most of the images proved successful, about ten of them had an ATI folder open up at startup. Even if we unchecked the application in the “System Configuration Utility” (msconfig.exe) / “Startup” tab; the folder would continue to appear. After installing and running this tool on one of the “C” drives; I unchecked the reference to ATI and the folder miraculously went away. I’m thinking about rolling it out on the other machines as well.

If you find it useful, please support its creator. If you don’t, I am only sharing that it worked for me.

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