msconfig?

Had some spare time, decided to try your msconfig diagnostic mode
trick to see what is happening with these glitches.

Well, OS is Win2K "SP5"; no msconfig.

Now what?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSConfig

"Windows 95 and Windows 2000 users can download the
utility as well, although it was not designed for them."

They recommend copying the file from a WinXP installation here.

http://www.techadvice.com/win2000/m/msconfig_w2k.htm

http://www.sysopt.com/showthread.php?122984-can-t-run-msconfig-on-win2K

I can't find any mention it was available as a separate download
direct from Microsoft. So I don't have a pointer to a "clean" copy.

Using the virtual machine files here, you should be able to find a
VHD with the file inside it. Which is an absurd way to get the
file. I'm not even sure you'd have a way to examine a VHD.
The VHDMount utility barely runs on WinXP. So even if you
used virtual machines as a "source of files", you still have the
problem of accessing them. (The 7ZIP utility won't open a VHD.)

VHD files come in two types. "Fixed capacity" virtual drives.
Which are perilously close to being a sector-by-sector copy of
a real partition. The "expanding" kind though, are not
exactly the same as a disk image, they use much less space, and
only contain copies of the in-use sectors. And as such, they're
not suited to easy hacking. You'll hardly ever find a fixed capacity
one for download, whereas the expanding capacity ones are quite popular.

You would need to hunt down a VHD utility of some sort, to make
more progress using that route.

If you had a WinXP SP3 installer CD, you should also be
able to find the file on there. Installer CDs have the files
compressed, with the extension on the file modified.

*******

If you had Windows 7 installed on a partition, you'd then
be able to run a virtual machine software, and be able to
access files as contained in the VMs on this page. I have
several images from here, that I've downloaded. The download
takes forever on a slow link like I've got. I think the
last one I did, took five hours.

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

That is how I can run Vista or Windows 7, on my WinXP machine,
long enough to answer questions. I don't generally leave them
running for too long. As for "computing" in such an environment,
my VM software only uses a single core, and I can "compute" faster
in the native OS. It depends on which VM software you use,
as to whether it has a core limitation or not. VirtualBox allows
lots of cores to be used, relative to some other lesser softwares.
It's just a pain to work with sometimes.

Paul

 

Thanks!