calc pop ups!!

Have you checked your startup?

Chances are it won't show up as an icon in your Startup menu. It appears this was don maliciously, so I would guess it was added to the registry, to hide it.

The below web site has a list of the registry entries that control programs on startup.

http://www.absolutestartup.com/help/Winstart.htm

I would check the registry for anything out of the ordinary. Remember, this could be masked as a Batch file or VB Script that does the same thing, so check it all out.

If you can post the contents of these entries, or email them directly to me, I will be able to tell you if anything looks weird.

Steve

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http://www.sysinternals.com

Hi

This is a shot in the dark, but have you also checked Scheduled Tasks?

Good luck

Note to Dhoppel.

Thanks for the info regarding autorun apps. Simple and elegant.

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ok folks, i just thought i could share this with you. i finally got it.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\AppKey

In that registry key, I found 5 folders (or sub-keys, I found a String Value with the name of ShellExecute, and it's value was, calc.exe.if you change that to another program, you would have that program pop up instead. i just deleted it and voila..my calc pop ups are history.thanks for your efforts