I have win xp with only one account on it. I was reorganizing some
startup programs in the startup menu by moving everything into the
allusers startup folder and categorizing it there.

The problem is that now, everything in the startup folder is loaded
twice. Removing it from the startup folder caused it to not run at
all. Upon further investigation, windows now thinks the current user
startup folder is in the alluser startup folder. So upon boot, it
loads the allusers startup folder as normal, but then loads the
current user startup folder (which it thinks is located at the
allusers startup folder), thereby running everything twice. Links in
the current user startup folder are not run at all.


How do I fix this giant mess!!??

Thanks

Hugh,

Fix your User Shell Folder paths - Courtesy of David Candy:

Open Registry Editor and navigate to these locations one by one and change each of the shell folders path to the default values as given below:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
Set Startup value to:
%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
Set Common Startup value to:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Restart Windows.

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
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"Hugh Jazz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
I have win xp with only one account on it. I was reorganizing some
startup programs in the startup menu by moving everything into the
allusers startup folder and categorizing it there.

The problem is that now, everything in the startup folder is loaded
twice. Removing it from the startup folder caused it to not run at
all. Upon further investigation, windows now thinks the current user
startup folder is in the alluser startup folder. So upon boot, it
loads the allusers startup folder as normal, but then loads the
current user startup folder (which it thinks is located at the
allusers startup folder), thereby running everything twice. Links in
the current user startup folder are not run at all.


How do I fix this giant mess!!??

Thanks

That worked like a charm. Thanks!

You're welcome!

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

"Hugh Jazz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
That worked like a charm. Thanks!