Hello. Changed lots of hardware internally. Re-installed XP. Have all updates. SP3. When I go into msconfig and stop some programs from starting at start up, it gives me this message: An Access Denied error was returned while attempting to change a service. You may need to log on using an Administrator account to make the specified changes. I am an administrator. The only user on the computer. How do I stop this message, or others like it? There are a few others just like this message I'm getting. Thank you.1 person got this answerI do too

Ok. Good to know. On my older drive, it did not give me this error message.Note: On the older drive, it had a partition on the front that was to do with boot-up for another computer I took the HDD from. Could that have affected no msconfig message, and now that partition is not in front of my new clean drives so I get the message?I do not have any HP stuff. My printer is a Lexmark. The changes seem to work and do (I'v looked in msconfig and the boxes are unchecked). I'll concider these third party programs. I have Norton 360,a nd it has a feature to control what starts at start up. It's already installed. But if anyone recommend any of the other programs above Norton, then please say so. It seems once and a while I saw programs in msconfig's startup that Norton seems to have missed, or thought was shut-off. That was Norton 360 version 3, I now have 4 installed. thanks a lot so far.

BrianYou may find not many here would allow Norton 360 disk space on their computer <G>!Norton is one of a number of junk items you remove when you buy a new laptop. Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

This is an old post, but I think I understand why a Hewlitt Packard message came up. I have a LG BH10 blu-ray drive. It came with software. Lots of Cyberlink programs, and some others. So, I looked at the autoruns program (I just installed it) and somewhere else - maybe at a process by accident in properties or something. It said Hewlitt Packard as the software creator. You also were right John John. Now it doesn't give me those messages anymore. I edited some startup and process items, and this is probably why I don't get these messages anymore.