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19th July 2006, 10:42 PM #1Notebook Enthusiast
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If I change something in MSConfig, will the settings affect all users, too?
If I change something in MSConfig, will the settings affect all users, too? Suppose I remove qttask from startup, will the other Limited user accounts feel the effects, too?
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19th July 2006, 10:51 PM #2Notebook Prophet
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Re: If I change something in MSConfig, will the settings affect all users, too?
As far as I know, it only goes to that particular user since MSConfig only edits that particular user's registry.
If you wanted to do it for all users, you could probably do a regedit on some of the software (pretty dangerous though).
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20th July 2006, 09:50 AM #3Notebook Deity
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Re: If I change something in MSConfig, will the settings affect all users, too?
If you know what you're doing, editing the registry isn't a horrible thing to do -- just always, always make a backup first. If you're not very certain of what can safely be removed from the registry, you're better off editing each individual account with msconfig.
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