Documents and Settings\Localservice\Desktop - Not found

[Frederick Pileggi]

I've asked before but maybe I wasn't clear. How do I remove this popup when
I am stating Windows?

_Fred

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Are you on some kind of network?

First Documents and Settings\LocalService does not have a Desktop.

See this...

RBS Technical Support System
http://remote-backup.com/cgi-bin/he...faq_view_record&faq=1&view_detail=1&faq_id=17

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Frederick Pileggi]

Let me backup and give you some background Wesley.
To start off this is just my home machine(XP-Pro/SP2) going thru a
Linksys router to the network. Earlier in the day when this problem started
everything was normal. When I powered up my machine later in the day I got
a popup for Windows Help looking for help files in system32. When I moved
my mouse over the pulldown where system32 was displayed is when I got the
popup for my subject line... I know there is no such directory from
googling and the fix to create a directory called Desktop partially worked.
By this I mean I no longer get the popup stating it cant find the directory
but its still looking for help files in system32. I doubt that its
coincidence that the search for help files and the non existent Desktop
directory were mutally exclusive.
My virus protection is uptodate and I use ZoneAlarm as a firewall. I
suspect I will need to do a clean install.
_Fred

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Fred,

Paste the following line in Start | Run and click OK...

msinfo32 /categories +SWEnvStartupPrograms /report
"%userprofile%\desktop\msinfosp.txt"

Dang it, the line wrapped. There should be one space between /report
and "%userprofile%\desktop\msinfosp.txt"

Locate msinfosp.txt on your Desktop, open it and scroll down to [Startup
Programs].

See if you can find any referrence to Documents and Settings\LocalService or
something to do with Help and system32.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Frederick Pileggi]

Wesley_ I did as you suggested. Only one mention of system32 under Startup
section and it had nothing revolving around Help. Nothing for Documents and
Settings\LocalService either. I can either live with this annoyance or just
do a clean install.
_Fred

Fred,

Paste the following line in Start | Run and click OK...

msinfo32 /categories +SWEnvStartupPrograms /report
"%userprofile%\desktop\msinfosp.txt"

Dang it, the line wrapped. There should be one space between /report
and "%userprofile%\desktop\msinfosp.txt"

Locate msinfosp.txt on your Desktop, open it and scroll down to [Startup
Programs].

See if you can find any referrence to Documents and Settings\LocalService
or
something to do with Help and system32.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Let me backup and give you some background Wesley.
To start off this is just my home machine(XP-Pro/SP2) going thru a
Linksys router to the network. Earlier in the day when this problem
started everything was normal. When I powered up my machine later in the
day I got a popup for Windows Help looking for help files in system32.
When I moved my mouse over the pulldown where system32 was displayed is
when I got the popup for my subject line... I know there is no such
directory from googling and the fix to create a directory called Desktop
partially worked. By this I mean I no longer get the popup stating it
cant find the directory but its still looking for help files in system32.
I doubt that its coincidence that the search for help files and the non
existent Desktop directory were mutally exclusive.
My virus protection is uptodate and I use ZoneAlarm as a firewall. I
suspect I will need to do a clean install.
_Fred