Every time I start Windows XP also my windows explorer starts. I have looked in The startupdirectories of document and settings, but there is no shortcut to explorer.exe. I have looked in msconfig, but in the startupsection there is also no explorer. What can I do to prevent the start of explorer?

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>Every time I start Windows XP also my windows explorer
starts. I have looked in The startupdirectories of
document and settings, but there is no shortcut to
explorer.exe. I have looked in msconfig, but in the
startupsection there is also no explorer. What can I do
to prevent the start of explorer?
>.
>check to see what home page it goes to. if it is not one
you picked, you might have spyware. If so get spybot s&d.
It is free,(just do a search for it).

Dear Brian
Thank you for your suggestion. I have downloaded spybot and I had it remove some trash. My IE starts with my startpage. Windows explorer still starts by itsself
Franelly

franelly wrote:

> Every time I start Windows XP also my windows explorer starts.
> I have looked in The startupdirectories of document and settings,
> but there is no shortcut to explorer.exe. I have looked in msconfig,
> but in the startupsection there is also no explorer. What can I do
> to prevent the start of explorer?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
change dword value "DesktopProcess" to 0 .

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Thank you, BlackFox, for your sollution, but - I am sorry - it didnot what it should do
franelly