Help Pls - Preventing Windows Explorer from opening on boot XP Home, SP2

[QuienEs]

Wife's Christmas present is a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop.

She is computer ignorant, I'm not - except for this one problem I
cannot solve.

When it boots, she wants to see ONLY her email client, Eudora, and
access her browser Mozilla from the quick launch bar at the bottom.

Problem is that on boot she gets an Explorer window showing the
following folder:

C:\Program Files\Zone.com which contains some bundled games.

Closing the folder before shutdown does not help.

Nor did deleting a reference to it in the registry.

I cannot find it with MSCONFIG in the 2 .INI files, nor in startup,
nor in services.

Best I have been able to do so far is resize it to a 1-inch square and
close it with CTRL-click on the X.

Of course, now it shows up on boot as a 1-inch square.

Can anyone tell me how to prevent it from opening on boot, OR opening
minimized ?

TIA, QE in NJ

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

When it boots, she wants to see ONLY her email client, Eudora, and
access her browser Mozilla from the quick launch bar at the bottom.

Problem is that on boot she gets an Explorer window showing the
following folder:

C:\Program Files\Zone.com which contains some bundled games.

I would check all the entries in MSCONFIG. Do a clean boot and see if
the problem persists.

 

[David Candy]

Check MSConfig. It's likely to be an incorrect formattted program name that gets decoded to that folder but Explorer can't decode it to the program - so it goes as far as it can.

 

[QuienEs]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:29:58 +1100, "David Candy" <.> wrote:

|Check MSConfig. It's likely to be an incorrect formattted program
name that gets decoded to that folder but Explorer can't decode it to
the program - so it goes as far as it can.
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Thanks guys, I played a process of elimination with the chunks of
MSCONFIG, then with the items in STARTUP.

Found it was an entry to start up ZoneAlarm, which was starting, but
somehow causing my problem too.

Un-installing and re-installing ZA [ not always easy ] did the trick.

Cheers, QE