This
program can do a billion useful things for
annoying MS OS users. Click
Start > Run and then type in msconfig and hit enter.
1. You can change to
selective startup and
disable your
startup items, which is useful for
troubleshooting.
2. Click the
Advanced button. Check
Disable Scandisk After Bad Shutdown. Now when you get
GPFs or
BSODs, you won't have to press enter to make scandisk go away when you
reboot!
3. Also under the Advanced button is an option to make the
Windows Startup Menu automatticly appear when you start your computer, letting you select from Normal or
Safe Mode (as opposed to having to hold
F8 or
Ctrl to make it come up).
4. Also under Advanced, you can specify how much memory you want the system to use. When my second block of
64MB of RAM went bad, I bumped this down to 64MB (I have two 64MB
chips) so that I would stop getting
General Protection Faults. Really
nifty.