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Old 10th Oct 2007, 15:52
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Hope this is the right spot to ask this question- I am trying to help out a friend with her startup programs (she has 37 at startup) and now she is blaming MSCONFIG for this:
" Since I have been tinkering with the Startup something has happened to the print on most of my pages. It has become fainter and two-toned and more difficult to read. I don't know which one I need to check out to fix this problem. Right now it is typing in grey and burgundy, sometimes it is blue and burgundy, other times, blue and purple. My DH is complaining that he is now having difficulty reading his emails. This has affected all regular printing on my computer from my home page, my emails, to this forum site."

I have Googled for hours on why this would be happening and cannot find an answer as to why the text has/is changing colours on her computer? I understand her use of 'printing' to be the actual text she is reading or typing, not quite clear as she isn't very computer literate. Hope this makes sense to someone as I can't make anything out of this.....
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Old 10th Oct 2007, 16:04
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Moved to the General Software Chat forum.
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Old 10th Oct 2007, 16:05
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Go to MSCONFIG and select "Normal Startup"

See if it clears up.

Use a Startup Manager like StartUp Tool 1.3 instead of MSCONFIG.
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Old 10th Oct 2007, 17:07
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Originally Posted by evilfantasy View Post
Go to MSCONFIG and select "Normal Startup"

See if it clears up.

Use a Startup Manager like StartUp Tool 1.3 instead of MSCONFIG.
I have told her to try this, plus clicking on normal startup in SCU (although we are now back with her having 37 mostly redundant programs loading and severely slowing her down)...I got her to try Advanced WindowsCare for home use and she didn't really understand what the programs are in her startup.
I downloaded what you linked to try it and it doesn't get any simpler that that! She has a lot of 'unknown programs' running and since she is on the other side of the country, pretty hard to visit and see whats going on......
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Old 10th Oct 2007, 17:52
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Microsoft Process Explorer

As for the changing colors, I am not sure.
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Old 10th Oct 2007, 18:11
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Autoruns is another good information tool.
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