unable to start C:\program 1

[willisd]

A user at our company gets the above message when he logs onto his Windows NT 4 system. Checked out MS knowledge base, and they told me it was a problem related to the space after the word "program". To get around the problem you need to find the registry entry, and put quote marks around the entire address "C:\program files\etc".
The problem I have is locating the registry entry that the error refers to, as there are hundreds of addresses pointing to C:\program?

I've checked in the registry in the run, and runonce entries, and there are no programs in there.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can resolve this problem.

Cheers.

 

[jrbarnett]

Ensure that you have checked both HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Run

A quick way to find the programs that are set to load on startup is to get a copy of Autoruns from

http://www.sysinternals.com.

This will let you know what is set to load from whatever registry keys, ini files and startup groups.

John

 

[petermeachem]

Hope you find it. I used to have this. Drove me batty. Should have asked here.

http://www.accuflight.com

http://www.lettersdirect.co.uk

http://www.ourhouseinportugal.co.uk/

 

[jrbarnett]

Petermeachem,

Go to:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#autoruns

to download the latest version.

John

 

[realm174]

Doesn't MSConfig do the same thing? The presentation is definitely different, but what's the advantage of autoruns over msconfig (or the other way around)?

Cheers,

Realm174

 

[jrbarnett]

Realm174
The trouble with MSConfig is that while it works very well, it only exists on Windows 98 and 98SE, not any other version of Windows.
The disadvantage of Autoruns over MSConfig is that it doesn't cover editing Autoexec.bat/config.sys or any WIN.INI/SYSTEM.INI setting unrelated to loading programs at startup.
However, for this purpose it is perfect.

John

 

[danp123]

msconfig exists on win 95 as well jrbarnett

 

[willisd]

Thanks a lot John, the program works perfect. Saved me loads of time.