Crap... Help please, this is ticking me off

[McRhea]

I installed this free program called FConverter last night, and then decided I didn't want it, so I removed it using Add/remove programs. Well, it tells me there are files left over that it can not remove, so I go take a look to see what they are. There are a bunch of .dll's in there, and I'm thinking, what the hell? The folder was in Program files, and they had no business being there, so I deleted them.

Now whenever I reboot, all the stuff in my system tray does not load up. I had 5 things. Point32.exe driver, SB live! thing, my Desktop thing, drivers for all the extra buttons on my keyboard, and the audio control. Every time I reboot I have to manually active those things, and it's pissing me off, how do you make the damn things stay?

Somehow I got rid of the .dll's keeping track of my crap, so now MSconfig doesn't even know they are there, and it sucks! What do I do?

[Ali]

Go to the recycle bin and un-delete the .dlls that you killed.

[McRhea]

Uhh.. Heh heh heh... I have my bin to delete all the files at once, with out sending them to the Recycle bin. In fact, I don't even have a Recycle bin on my desk top.

[McRhea]

Come on guys, all I need to know how to do is to make the Msconfig start up my point32.exe files and a couple other things... how hard can that be? I just don't know how, that's all.

[AlgoRhythm]

Well, the brute force way is to run regedit, and go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run

Then add string values with the full path of the executable you want to start when the machine boots...

AlgoRhythm

[McRhea]

Cool, at least the driver gets loaded whenever I reboot. Thanks!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

perhaps you should reinstall the program again & then uninstall with the knowledge, in hindsight, that some dlls are shared & should not be deleted.

[FaRaN]

It's probably not the right way, but it helps:

Put shortcuts of all those executables in you startup-folder.

DONE!