Hi,

My XP Pro (SP2), with current updates, has been behaving normally until
yesterday when it booted to the desktop with icons and taskbar, but then
immediately switched by itself to "C:\Program Files\Dell," a folder
which contains drivers, printer software, shared DLL's, etc. If I close
this folder, my computer returns to the desktop and everything behaves
normally. I am totally at a loss to explain this problem.

Running Norton Antivirus and Window Washer revealed nothing wrong and
did not change this strange behavior.

Can someone explain what is going on here, and how I might be able to
correct the problem?

Thanks

riserman

"riserman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> My XP Pro (SP2), with current updates, has been behaving normally until
> yesterday when it booted to the desktop with icons and taskbar, but then
> immediately switched by itself to "C:\Program Files\Dell," a folder which
> contains drivers, printer software, shared DLL's, etc. If I close this
> folder, my computer returns to the desktop and everything behaves
> normally. I am totally at a loss to explain this problem.
>
> Running Norton Antivirus and Window Washer revealed nothing wrong and did
> not change this strange behavior.
>
> Can someone explain what is going on here, and how I might be able to
> correct the problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> riserman

This may help:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/dellfolder.htm

Ed Metcalfe.