Disable startup programs xp command prompt

To disable a program, simply un-check the box next to it. If you are unsure if a program should be disabled, please either look it up on ProcessLibrary. When you are done, click OK to apply the changes. After you click OK, click on Restart when asked about restarting your computer. After your computer has restarted and you have logged back in, check the box next to Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts and then click OK.

Active 7 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 25k times. Surely such a command exists? A million thanks! Improve this question. Scandalist Scandalist 2, 8 8 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. For example, to disable and stop an Apache web server you could use this: sc config apache2. Improve this answer. Mario Mario 4, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges.

Probably the most relevant answer but not an effective resolution for what I need. Further research suggests what I want to do is not possible. Ideally, Windows would have some kind of environmental variable for programs and services that start up.

This way, you could script a task without needing to know what the user has installed on the system. Ankit 4, 2 2 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Maciej Cygan Maciej Cygan 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. Can you find and add a couple helpful links to your answer, like proper way to use msconfig, and link for CCleaner?

This screenshot shows the first tab when you open msconfig from the Run dialogue. We call this function as Startup Programs. This feature is generally very useful but in some cases, it may be unnecessary and slow down the performance of the system.

The System Configuration tool is used to set, enable, disable startup applications and programs. We can open System Configuration in different ways. We can use Run application in order to open System Configuration.

We will run msconfig. There is also more easy way to open System Configuration applications where we will simply search in applications in the Start menu.