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Annoying Startup Setting

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by arichart Jan 30, 2003 last reply Mar 3, 2003

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Everytime my W98SE machine boots up, instead of going directly to the desktop, the C:WINDOWS folder comes up and I have to close it. I have looked in the folder properties and msconfig to no avail. Is there some simple solution that I am overlooking? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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by gina Jan 30, 2003

I have seen the System 32 folder open at start up on Windows NT. This problem was corrected through a registry change. While this issue appears to be specific to NT, it might be worth reading the article to see if anything similar applies in your case:

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 170086
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;170086

Also, be sure you have checked the Startup folder to ensure a shortcut to the Windows folder did not end up there accidentally.