startup with Explorer open

[noby]

hi,

I always startup with the explorer window open, which went fine, up to some 10 days ago. it won't automatically open explorer now at startup. I tried different settings in explorer, but no use

anybody having ideas of how to get this fixed?? Could this come from the automatic Windows updates?

thanks

noby

[ktkendall]

Look under Programs>Startup, and see if anything is still in there. If not you do a search for explorer.exe then once you find it, put a shortcut to it in the startup folder...

[noby]

that's right, ktkendall, but what I tried to dig up was why it worked before without the shortcut

[GaryRouth]

Programs can start from several places: the old ".ini" files, the config.sys & autoexec.bat files, the Startup group on the Start/Programs menus, and the "Run" and "Run Services" keys in the Registry. A clearly written exploration of the whole Win9x background process/startup process situation is over at pacs-portal [he's been helping folks for quite some time over there] http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

Somehow a line or value became altered, and whatever used to call IE no longer did. This can be something as simple as an option in a program's menu for automatic updates, for example (Windows Update can do this, as you mention).

You might want to run a full system scan for viruses/spyware just to make sure a setting didn't get altered by an unwanted program. AdAware is available at http://www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search&Destroy is available at http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
. . . Gary

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