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MSConfig is a good, versatile tool for managing the startup process on your computer. Additionally it can be of a lot more use if you are looking to troubleshoot performance and stability issues. MiniTool shows you how to access and use it on Windows 10.
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Click inside the Windows search box on the taskbar and type “msconfig” into it. Then click the best-matched search result: System Configuration.
Step 1: Press “Windows + R” keys simultaneously to call out Run dialog.
Step 2: Type “msconfig” in the Run box and then press Enter key to open System Configuration.
How to Use MSConfig
The System Configuration window consists of 5 different tabs: General, Boot, Services, Startup, and Tools. These tabs and various options under them are very useful for managing your computer. Let’s learn their functions.
General Tab
When you open System Configuration, the General tab will be displayed by default. It provides you with 3 Startup selections: Normal startup, Diagnostic startup, and Selective startup.
In the top area, a white box lists operating systems installed on the current machine. Under the white box, there are other important functions like Advanced options and Boot options.
Warning: Be cautious about selecting Make All Boot Settings Permanent. Once you choose this option and save it, there is no easy way to revert to the previous settings. You will have to change everything manually.
Services Tab
When the operating system boots up, only services that are checked here can run at startup. If you don’t want some services to run at startup, uncheck them here.
If you believe that any of the Windows Services is causing an issue, then this section lets you deselect, and help you figure. However, be careful when you decide to disable a service because you might cause other problems.
Startup Tab
In this tab, there is only one option: Open Task Manager. As the name suggests, it will help you open Task Manager. In Task Manager, you can monitor processes and hardware performances, disable startup items, end tasks, etc.
Tools Tab
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So my Recoverx64.bat changed the path to /x64/sources since my Recovery partition has both the x32 and x64 but with my modified install.wim put in the x64/sources subdirectory. The files on this partition were those that would be created my mediacreator tool.
CLS
REM Remove the bcdedit identifier tag assigned for removal.
set /p guid= <MyRecoveryWin10proguid.dat
bcdedit /delete %guid% /cleanup
REM Remove the guid from the displayorder list of bootmgr
bcdedit /displayorder %guid% /remove
REM Remove guid environment variable
set guid=
REM Delete the temporary data file that has the guid
del /f MyRecoveryWin10proguid.dat
Of course, one could create a batch file to make it more versatile by adding command line switches/data to the batch files command line in cases where one has more than one bootup option.
I’m assuming that as the number of bootup option list increases, that the font size size is reduced automatically, and that a scroll window appears if the number is beyond the number that can be displayed on one screen.
Question: I’ve done the same for my windows Server 2022 using the batch file method. However, what is displayed is the WinServer 2022 name, but the MyRecoveryWinSrvr2022 name I specified doesn’t show. It only shows “ramdisk” and when selected will recover my win server 2022 from my wim file. Moreover, the background color doesn’t change, nor does the font size increase like the win10 pro bootup options do. Note: I’m not mixing Win server 2022 boot and recovery at the same time as win10 pro and recovery. They both have their own batch files and I run the delete batch file on win10pro before I switch over to the set of batch files for win server 2022 and vice versa.
Table of Contents
MSCONFIG is an operating system utility designed to troubleshoot the Microsoft Windows startup process. It can disable or re-enable software, device drivers, or Windows services that run at startup, and it can change boot parameters.
MSCONFIG is straightforward to use and helps you troubleshoot a lot of Windows 10 and 11 boot problems. You can modify how the computer boots (start-up file), the services, and the startup files on either a temporary or a permanent basis. This makes MSCONFIG a useful troubleshooting utility. It can be used to speed up your Boot times and to streamline what loads where and when as your computer starts up.
How to Open MSCONFIG
(Figure.5: MSCONFIG General Tab)
The MSCONFIG General tab gives you some basic options for starting your device. The default choice for the utility is Normal Startup. The other two options for starting the computer are Diagnostic Startup and Selective Startup.
This starts Windows with basic services and drivers only. With this mode, you can determine if a basic Window file is the problem. This type of startup gives you a minimum environment for troubleshooting.
This allows you to choose which programs and services you want to open and which ones you want to keep from opening at startup.
If you detect that one of the launch programs is causing a problem at startup, then you can clear the Load Startup Items. It prevents any startup program from launching. This is too general to help you determine which program is causing the problem, but it helps you narrow down the issue to a certain area.
How to use MSCONFIG to troubleshoot a Configuration Issue
This tab gives you many options for starting up the computer. The top portion of the window contains the start-up file that the computer is using. If there are multiple boot partitions on the computer, you see each listed here. You can change the timeout value for the boot menu. You can clearly see what commands the boot manager is using, to see if there are any issues.
(Figure.6: MSCONFIG Boot Tab)
Two of the three buttons provided in this window are for editing purposes and are unavailable by default. There are two options down the side of the page:
Make all boot settings permanent:
Changes made in System Configuration are not tracked. If you want to make changes later, you have to do so manually. Use this feature with caution!
Note: Selecting Normal Startup in the General tab WILL NOT work if this feature is selected. With this setting enabled, you must manually revert any changes that you have made.
Using MSCONFIG can cause the operating system selection screen to display for thirty seconds. As a result, thirty seconds are added to the overall startup time. To prevent the operating selection screen from appearing for thirty seconds on startup, change the timeout line in the Timeout field to zero.
The only button that is not unavailable under the Boot tab, is the Advanced Options. Clicking the Advanced Options button brings up the Boot Advanced Options dialog box. Usually you do not use these options, but they can come in handy. Such as if you suspect that a boot issue is being caused by having multiple processors. You can limit the number of processors used to boot the computer by selecting the Number of Processors check box and specifying a number.
(Figure.7: MSCONFIG BOOT Advanced Options)
Note: I would not advise using this option unless you fully understand what each action should do and what effect you can expect to see.
Boot option choices
The most valuable functions on the Boot tab are the boot options. You can use these choices for various troubleshooting.
Safe boot Minimal:
Safe boot Alternate shell:
On startup, opens the Windows command prompt in safe mode running only critical services. Networking and the GUI are disabled.
Safe boot Active Directory repair:
On startup, opens the Windows GUI in safe mode running critical services and Active Directory
Safe boot Network:
On startup, opens the Windows GUI in safe mode running only critical services and networking is enabled
No GUI boot:
It does not display the Windows Welcome screen when starting
Stores all information from the startup process in the file %SystemRoot%Ntbtlog.txt
On startup, opens the Windows GUI in minimal Visual Graphics Adapter (VGA) mode. This loads standard VGA drivers instead of display drivers specific to the video hardware on the computer
OS boot information:
Shows driver names as drivers are loaded during the startup process
This can limit the number of processors used on a multiprocessor. If the check box is selected, the computer boots using only the number of processors in the drop-down list.
This specifies the maximum amount of physical memory used by the operating system to simulate a low memory configuration. The value in the text box is megabytes (MB).
It prevents Windows from reallocating I/O and Interrupt Request (IRQ) resources on the PCI bus. The I/O and memory resources set by the BIOS are preserved.
Enables kernel-mode debugging for device driver development
These are the debugger connection settings on this computer. To let a kernel debugger, communicate with a debugger host. The debugger connection between the host and target computers can be Serial, IEEE 1394, or USB 2.0.
Specifies using Serial as the connection type and the serial port and the default port is COM1
Specifies the baud rate to use when Debug port is selected and the debug connection type is Serial. This setting is optional. Valid values for baud are 9600, 19,200, 38,400, 57,600, and 115,200. The default baud rate is 115,200 bps.
Use channel 1394 as the debug connection type and it specifies the channel number to use. The value for channel must be a decimal integer between 0 and 62, inclusive, and must match the channel number used by the host computer. The channel specified does not depend on the physical 1394 port chosen on the adapter. The default value for channel is 0.
Specifies a string value to use when the debug type is USB and this string can be any value
How to use MSCONFIG to troubleshoot a Conflict Issue
Note: At any point during troubleshooting the services using MSCONFIG, you can always return to the default settings by selecting Normal Startup.
The MSCONFIG Services tab lists integrated Windows services and programs that start when Windows 10 and 11 starts. The Windows operating system periodically runs them itself. You must be careful when disabling services as many are critical to the computer’s operation. Enable or disable programs or services from starting by checking or disabling the checkbox next to the program name. This is useful when you are troubleshooting service-related problems.
(Figure.8: MSCONFIG Services Tab)
Microsoft have designed most of the services in Windows 10 and 11 themselves. To make it easier to find third-party services, you can click the Hide All Microsoft Services button.
Note: Selecting Disable all does not disable some secure Microsoft services required for the operating system to start.
Troubleshooting using the Startup tab
(Figure.9: MSCONFIG Startup Tab)
This tab is used to allow you to prevent items in your startup folder from starting when you log in. You now get a clickable link to the Windows 10 and 11 Task Manager which controls this function now.
The Startup tab of the Task Manager shows a list of the current software applications that open automatically after Windows opens. It shows the status of each app. Disable individual software applications by highlighting the application and click Disable.
(Figure.10: MSCONFIG Task Manager Start-Up Tab)
Note: Disabling applications that run at startup might result in related applications starting more slowly or not running as expected.
Note: You must know what a service does, before you decide to disable it permanently. You can always run a search in Bing
for the service. That would supply an explanation of what that service does for your machine. Alternatively you can go to one of the various third-party pages
and see if you can match your service against one of their lists.
Using the Tools tab.
(Figure.11: MSCONFIG Tools Tab)
The Tools tab lists diagnostic tools and other advanced tools that you can run to improve computer performance. Read the description next to the name of the tool to better understand its function before you open it. To open a tool, select the name of the tool from the list and click the Launch button. These are tools that are built into the operating system like event viewer and such, but they are all gathered in one place under this tab.
Once any changes have been made, you are asked to restart when you close the MSCONFIG utility. You must check if the changes affected what happens on restart. If they have you can keep them and continue to narrow the issue down. If they do not, revert back to the defaults and try again with different changes.
(Figure.12: MSCONFIG Computer Restart Message)
Note: If this does not resolve your issue, then you can contact your local Technical Support for further troubleshooting. Troubleshooting out of warranty products is chargeable.
You need to explain more in detail on whats going on. What you said means nothing just by context.
This option should define that when the computer is turned on, all the services and files that are loaded when Windows is started will be displayed.
In general – nothing is displayed, only Windows turns on and does not display any information about the files that are loaded at startup.
You do realize the only thing that is displayed there is what OS’s are installed right? If you had a dual boot or triple boot system then every OS would be listed there. That is all that the boot section of msconfig is for, has nothing to do with what files are loading at bootup. If you want to see what apps are loading at bootup then you click on the startup tab.
Since I have a dual boot setup for windows 10 and windows 11 then this is what mine looks like.
this from google.
“OS boot information” – this option should be used together with “No GUI Boot.” The usual Windows loading screen will get replaced with a black screen, displaying complete information about the drivers that are loaded during the startup process
I understood from this that it should show the files and services that are loaded when the computer is turned on.
If I misunderstood, I would appreciate it if you could explain it to me.
If you click on where it says redirecting, it’s a website link. Not sure why it says that though.
If you go into the bios and disable oem logo at boot it may show you that information.
May I ask why you want to see this information?
you can explaim me how to do it?
ASUS laptop – ASUS VivoBook.
thenks.
without displaying any information about the devices, files and services that came up when booting Windows 10.
Dang I haven’t seen that behavior since like Windows 2000, at least in a Microsoft environment. UEFI hides a lot of stuff from view, sounds like you’re mainly describing the old BIOS style boot prompts. Verbose mode is probably what you are after.
That’s a lil’ intentionally vague, no?
I don’t think he’s looking for verbose mode. As beers has said, I think he’s looking for something that was in the old OS’s where it showed what was loading and drivers and stuff.
If he enables boot log on the msconfig screen, it creates a log of everything and then he can access it after system boots up.
The log will be at C:Windows
tbtlog.txt. You can then open it and see whats loading.
what you mean its the option ” boot log ” i speaking on ” OS boot information ”
but i undersanding that the option ” OS boot information ” not wotking on windows since windows 2000.
I understand it right?
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