See ???Recover Your System After a Crash,??? later in this chapter,
for details.
Start Windows Normally
Use this self-explanatory option to continue booting Windows normally,
as though you never had invoked the F8 menu.
With these tools (and the referenced sections in this book), you should have
everything you need to get Windows running again. At the point you discover
the grim fact that your repair mission has turned into a recovery mission,
see ???Recover Your System After a Crash,??? later in this chapter.
Manage Startup Programs
The Startup folder in the Start menu is where most people go if they want
Windows to start an application automatically when it boots. Just drag a
shortcut to the program into the folder, and Windows will do the rest.
Or, if there??™s a program you don??™t want Windows to load??”either because
it??™s causing an error message or because Vista is booting too slowly??”just
right-click the shortcut in the Startup folder and select Delete.
Trouble is, there are many ways to configure startup programs, and if you??™re
trying to solve a problem or just reduce boot times, you need to look at
them all:
Startup folders
There are actually two of these on your hard disk, but shortcuts in both
places show up in the Startup menu (under All Programs in your Start
menu). If you have a lot of cleanup to do, you??™ll find it??™s easier to open
Windows Explorer than to repeatedly open the Start menu. First, your
personal Startup folder is located here:
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup
and programs listed therein will load automatically when you first log in
to your user account.
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