Sorry ... misunderstood your response ... seemed to indicate that you only
ready after the [USERNAME], not knee deep.
OK ... now for the problem.
Something has placed a Initialization File 'general.ini' in the All Users
Startup folder, which means that you have some Initialization file (*.ini),
that is used by some process that executes at Startup. This process uses
the contents of 'general.ini'.
Try moving the file out from the All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Startup
folder. Move it into the parent folder All Users/Start Menu/Programs and
then reboot and see if you still have the problem.
If you do, recheck the All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Startup folder again,
and see if the 'general.ini' file is back. If it is, then some process is
being started at login and creating that file.
Then it is a simple matter of checking the Run keys in the registry and
determine what is being started. You can use msconfig for this.
colt said:
I am looking in the Startup folder. Those *.ini files are in the
Startup folder.
Larry said:
Wrong folder ... the Startup folder is not the Profile folder. Look
here:
C:\Documents and Settins\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settins\[USERNAME]\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
colt said:
The fol *.ini files are in these folders:
Administrator -> desktop.ini
Jim -> desktop.ini
Default User -> desktop.ini
All Users -> general.ini
Jim
Larry Gardner wrote:
Did you check to see what is in all of the Startup Folders for All
Users
and
the user you are logging in as?
When I boot XP, I get three windows. One is a windows explorer
window
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup\Administrator. The second is the same except
it
is Jim instead of Administrator. The third is the general.ini file
in
the All Users Startup folder. This file has only two lines:
user=
workdir=
My question is: Why is this happening and what can I do to stop it?
Jim
