Hello!

I've posted this exact same question on another dude's thread but I thought I'd just create a new thread in case (sorry, what a noob, eh? cant help it, i'm female...)

I've used msconfig to use the same startup thing, and I've unchecked a load of others I know I don't need (from looking up which ones are just unneccesary).

I've had two problems:

1) Every time I log on, I get the same message as above ("you have used the System Configuration Utility to make changes.... etc. etc.").
It wont go away even though I've hit the "dont show this message" box

2) Every time I restart my computer, when I check msconfig, half the boxes I unchecked are now checked again (including jusched, and others).

Any ideas what I can do?

Thanks

Rebekah

Regarding question one, if you have checked the box, I am not sure why the message still appears, unless it is a policy related setting. Check under administrative tools in the control panel.
About question two, are you clicking "apply" after you uncheck the boxes? If you just click "OK", then everything will revert to the way it was when the application closes.

To dlwolff0  I'd like a clarification and/or confirmation of your statement:

About question two, are you clicking "apply" after you uncheck the boxes? If you just click "OK", then everything will revert to the way it was when the application closes.

I was under the impression that the only difference between "Apply" and "OK" is that "Apply" causes the changes to be made but leaves the window open and that "OK" causes the changes to be made and closes the window.  Am I way off base?  I am speaking generally about any Windows window where you make changes and have both options available.

Laverne

In all of the windows applications that I have encountered, you must hit the "Apply" button first. The "Okay" button just gets you out of that screen.

As onemaddude said, you have to hit apply to make changes with Windows applications.
It depends on what the programmer decides, so a lot of other applications just use the OK button.
I suppose this is just another Windows "safety" feature, like when they ask if you are sure you want to do this and their famous "not recommended".

   I have heard that stated before here, but I think you are wrong about the OK and Apply buttons.
   This is how I have always known it to be:

• Apply implements the changes without closing the window.
  
• OK closes the window after implementing the changes.
  
• Cancel closes the window without implementing the changes.
  

   So if you want to implement the changes and you are closing the window, you can just click on OK.  OK will do what Apply does and then close the window.

I have had at least one instance I remember, where I made a settings change, rebooted and the old setting was back.
This happened twice, until I clicked the apply button. After that, the setting remained after rebooting.
This happened on a Win2K computer and since that time I have always used the apply button.

   If that happened, it was not supposed to happen that way (I am not saying that it did not happen to you, it is possible that program had a bug in it where it did not save the changes when OK was used, but it should have).
   You can try this with msconfig or any other program.  Make a change and click on the OK button.  This will close msconfig.  Then open msconfig up again and you will see that the change is shown (it was applied).
   If on the other hand, you make a change and click on the Cancel button, when you open msconfig the change will not be shown (it was not applied).