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Clean boot into Windows 2008, and Vista

by Steve Wiseman on June 1, 2009 · 5 comments

in Boot,Windows,Windows 2008,Windows Vista


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I was troubleshooting a server yesterday and a came across an easy way to clean boot into Vista, or 2008. When I say clean boot I mean that Windows starts without any 3rd party services running.

To do it, startup MSCONFIG, (Start then run…type msconfig.exe)

Once it launches, move over to the services tab:

Windows 2008 Clean Boot Services

Then move down, and hide Microsoft services (We don’t want to disable those)

Windows 2008 Clean Boot Hide Microsoft

After you do that, click the “Disable Services” button on the right:

Windows 2008 Clean Boot Disable

Now click OK, and reboot. When Windows restarts, no 3rd party services will be running.

Once you have completed your troubleshooting you can reverse the process to turn them back on.

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1 Jen June 1, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Thanks for the tip steve. I did not know thehttp://www.yahoo.comy made that update to msconfig.

2 Dave Robbins June 1, 2009 at 10:18 pm

Good tip steve. Now I don’t have to dig through services.msc to find all of the services to disable, and then re-enable.

3 Kathy June 2, 2009 at 7:11 pm

Um…Steve…that has been in Windows since I believe XP. I just checked and I found it in XP, and 2003.

4 Steve Wiseman June 2, 2009 at 7:12 pm

You are right. I never checked to see if those versions of windows have it…and indeed they do.

5 Tim June 3, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Strange. I never saw that either in XP, or even Vista for that matter…and I use ms config all the time to remote startup items. Thanks for the time saver

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