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To: Doug T. who wrote (1386)	1/4/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 110626

There might be a startup option among the configuration options in Works. Also, did you try right-clicking the icon in the system tray? Sometimes you can disable the startup function there.

To: Doug T. who wrote (1386)	1/4/1999 1:00:00 AM
From: snerd	Respond to of 110626

Doug... follow these instructions carefully if you're comfortable editing the registry. If not, get a friend who is okay with it: Click the "start" button, then "run". In the box that pops up, type in "regedit" without the quotes. When the editor opens up, click the "+" plus sign next to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". This will expand the keys under it. Do the same on "Software", then "Microsoft", then "Windows", then "CurrentVersion". These are all sub keys that will appear when you click the "+" plus signs next to the keys I mentioned. Under "CurrentVersion", there will be a key named "Run". Click this key once to highlight it. This will show you the entries on the right-hand side pane. I'd bet there is an entry there to run MSWorks. Click this entry once to highlight it, right-click while your mouse is over it, and choose delete. That will fix you up. Print these instructions out for reference. And be very careful, as you're in the guts of the operating system. Only delete the MSWorks entry under the "run" key. I am not encouraging you to do this unless you are comfortable editing the registry! It's not really a hard job, as long as you don't mess with any other data keys in there. Snerd

To: Doug T. who wrote (1386)	1/4/1999 7:37:00 AM
From: snerd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

Doug... Sometimes I make it harder than it has to be. There's an easier way to do what I described earlier. There's a little known tool in '98 that makes managing the startup programs really easy. Go to start, programs, accessories, system tools, system information. When that comes up, look on the menu bar for "tools", then "system configuration utility". When that comes up, go to the "startup" tab. This will show you everything that runs at startup. Simply "uncheck" anything you don't want to run at startup, then reboot when it asks. The previous procedure I posted will work too, but this is a little easier and safer. Snerd

To: Doug T. who wrote (1386)	1/4/1999 8:33:00 AM
From: Steven Bowen	Respond to of 110626

Doug, it's easy to put the shortcuts back into your startup menu. I'd think you'd be safe deleting them and seeing if your problem goes away. If it does, you can put your shortcuts back one at a time until you find if one of them is causing the problem. Or right click on each shortcut and select properties, that will give you the path to each application. Check the path and make sure the shortcuts are still valid. Do you know what AOL, DM, and ATI scheduler are? Have you changed, deleted or moved one of the programs? The problem isn't with Word, it's because the computer was looking for help and you told it to use Word. It could be that you just deleted or moved one of these programs and the shortcut isn't valid anymore.