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How to perform a clean startup (clean boot) in Windows 7

Saturday, 10 September 2011 17:56 by Jason

 Clean boot is a boot configuration, when minimal set of services and autorun programs starts with Windows. It’s a good tool for troubleshooting software issues. 

 To load Windows with clean boot configuration, follow those steps:

      

1)   1) Press “Start” button.

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2) Type “msconfig”.

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3) Press Enter or left click on “msconfig” link, that has appeared in search results.

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4) On “General” tab, uncheck “Load startup items”.

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5) On “Services” tab, check “Hide all Microsoft services”.

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6) Press “Disable all” button and then “OK”.

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7) It will prompt you to restart system - choose “Restart”.

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1)      8) Now, system will load with “clean boot” configuration.


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