Persistent system configurations editors comes up at start up

[moonlight burner]

Win95 operating system, every time, I restart computer, the system configuration editors comes out with 5 smaller windows with header as in belows :

c:\windows\protocol.ini
c:\autoexec.bat
c:\config.sys
c:\windows\win.ini
c:\windows\system.ini

Don't know whether it's a known error .

What do you guys think ? Any cure for this headache ?

Thanks in advance.

[ktkendall]

Check your autoexec.bat file for an entry that says: sysedit
If you see that line in there, erase it and that will stop it... Also check in Programs>Startup and see if thats how it's getting in there and delete it...

[moonlight burner]

hi ktkendall, is it due to 'virus' ?

I've to find out on Monday then. Will keep posting the outcome.

Thanks !

[ktkendall]

I don't think it's a virus but could be...

[moonlight burner]

Ok, did check out autoexec.bat, but did not find the command of "sysedit' of any sort.

Any other spot I should check of these mysterious , system configuration editors.

Didn't know I need to be like 'Sherlock Homes' the great detective to be in the IT line
Though I am a fan of him. I love how he handle 'stress', he would play his violin, and drown his troubles......
Unfortunaltely I don't have the genes of a musician......

[GaryRouth]

Another place to look would be with regedit: look in on the key
HKEY Local Machine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

If for some reason sysconfig is in there, you would see those configuration folders on startup. Though why they would be there is a real puzzle. I've never heard of this one before.

Windows makes a copy of your Registry after successful boots, but you might want to make an extra backup copy if you decide to delete the key/value in Run for sysconfig.

Since it's such strange behavior, it would make sense to scan with an up-to-date antivirus scanner (you could always use HouseCall online if you need an up-to-the-minute updated scanner: http://www.trendmicro.com -->free online tools)

Kt had you check in on the Startup folder on your Start/Programs menu - sometimes kids drag shortcuts in there with the touchpads on notebooks & all sorts of funny things run at startup.

[. . . and, on the humorous side, one of Microsoft's error reporting tools is called "Dr. Watson", and it's icon does somewhat resemble Mr. Holmes' famous sidekick listening carefully with a stethoscope . . . I can't remember at the moment if Dr. Watson is in Windows 95 or not, but he is in the MS System Information toolset in Windows 98]

Best of luck
. . . Gary

[p.s. ...just checked over at pacs-portals startup list, and it does appear that some viruses run sysconfig lookalikes at startup. You can check the list with sysconfig in it at http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup.../startup_s.php ]

[moonlight burner]

Hi GaryRouth, good to see you since your last rescue

I actually encounter the case of the mysterious 'pop up System editors at startup' twice so far. The first -I thought I could ignore and live with it, until I met the second , where my boss was using ! Thought i could I get away with the first, but I guess this bug finally caught up with me, no way out

mm.......... didn't quite check the start-up programs.

I rushed over to my boss computer and check......mmm there's this epson printer status monitor sticking there, which I have replaced with a Lemark Z11 printer, prime suspect, I delete it.

Then i check the registries to see anything suspicious under the 'run' , didn't find anything fishy.

Then I reboot the computer, it hung. So I did a reset, finally the windows desktop comes up, and GOD !!! the mysterious 'system configurations editors' didn't show up !

Then I restart the computer just to be sure, and indeed the case of the mysterious 'system configuration editors ' are put to rest .

Thanks Ktkendall and GaryRouth for healing torch I am pleased with your professionism..

Oh , almost forget about the Dr. Watson, it's not in windows 95. I am aware it's in Windows NT 4.
Ah...Dr. Watson, actually I almost forgot he was the one who wrote and record the Sherlock Homes adventures. But I don't see any more of their shows these days... sure miss them.