Re: System 32 folder opens during start up

[Michael Cecil <macecil () comcast net>]

At 11:23 AM 3/9/2006, DMORROW5 () satx rr com wrote:
>I'm drawing a blank...
>
>One of the computers that I maintain is giving me a headache. It's a
>personal computer, and every-time it boots up, the system32 directory
>folder opens up. I've looked in startup folders for all users, and a few
>other things, but cannot find the reason.
>
>Any thoughts to turn this off? I suspect it may be in the registry, but
>I'm not definitely sure.

Sometimes when a program doesn't get uninstalled correctly this can 
happen from a leftover startup entry in the registry.  You might just 
want to run HijackThis <http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/> which does a 
pretty good job of scanning and listing all the startup items.  Or 
perhaps use msconfig (can copy it to a W2K machine from an XP one) 
but it's not as thorough.  Harlan Carvey posted a very good list (in 
Excel) of all the registry startup locations last year on his blog 
<http://windowsir.blogspot.com/> too.
--
Michael Cecil
macecil () comcast net
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/


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