Stop Word document

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Remove the Word shortcut from the Windows Startup folder.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I've removed (deleted) the Word shortcut and restarted my PC and the Word
document still comes up.
 
Are you saying that when you start Windows Word loads and opens an existing
document? Is there a shortcut to that document in the Windows Startup
folder?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Remove the Word shortcut from the Windows Startup folder.
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Hi Suzanne,

I'm having this same problem -- I noticed it after an auto-update on
XP Professional two weeks or so ago. Auto-updates sometimes make the
PC reboot if you're not around to stop it (not that you'd want to...).
When I logged into my PC after this forced reboot, the first thing I
noticed was that Word opened, although the document it was opening
wasn't visible, but then it closes again.

I'm an educated user -- been using word since the days when mice were
hooked to the serial port of a PC. I admit I'm not aware of how this
is happening under XP. There is _no_ shortcut in my startup folder
(that I can see, anyway). The "Microsoft office" shortcut was there,
but I've since removed it to no effect.

I've booted a couple of times to see what's going on in the Task
Manager -- in fact, I see that EXCEL.exe and POWERPNT.exe are also
running around the same time that my Word window appears, although
they never show up as running applications.

My anti-virus is up to date, my firewall has always been turned on, I
never open attachments. I doubt it's a trojan horse or any spyware - I
use Firefox and not IE.

Any other ideas of where to look?
 
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