WINNT/system32 box at start up

[blackcountrybaggieboy]

Hi all, I've just found this site, and have a small annoying problem. When I boot up each morning I get the C:/WINNT/system32 window appear on my desktop. How do stop this from happening?

Cheers,

Marc

[philv]

Hi,

In the registry, try looking at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Or in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\etc as above

Can't remember which one, and look for a default entry with a blank property ("") and delete it. This fixed the problem for me.
Cheers,
P

[blackcountrybaggieboy]

Thanks for the info. The nearest thing I can find in the registry is the following. Is this what I should change?

set KeyName = "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"
OpenRegKey $(!REG_H_LOCAL) "" $(KeyName) $(!REG_KEY_READ) KeyHandle
ifint $(RegLastError) != $(!REG_ERROR_SUCCESS)

Cheers,

Marc

[philv]

Just had a look at my machine - location of the default entry with blank property ("") was:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Let us know if you find this entry and what values there are under this key - though won't be back on this message board until Monday, weekend starts in a couple of minutes...
Cheers,
P

[blackcountrybaggieboy]

Hi,

I had a go and methodically went through the registry and deleted all the entries one by one with ("") in the line, but to no avail.
Anyone have anymore ideas?

Cheers,

marc

[DrEd]

This link should be helpful:

Q. Every time I start NT, explorer is started showing the system32 directory.
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=14559

cheers