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by casemaker

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Hi,
I have a system running W95b with a 200 mhz pentium with 32mb ram 3 gb hdd partitioned into 3 1000mb drives. Problem is that everytime I boot Internet Explorer tries to launc. I have taken all items out of startup folder. Did regedit and removed start items from the run, run once and so on folders in the registry. I have checked with sysedit in auto exec and config.sys and win.ini and found no reference to IE starting at boot. How do I stop it from tying to launch at boot.
Thanks
Mark

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by paul majestic

Check the startup folder under programs. If not see if you have your system configured to always dial a connection.

by shanghai sam

Thank You! What I ended up doing was to remove the file loadwc.exe from the run folder in the registry.

by jctech

First thing I would do is copy msconfig.exe from the Windows\System directory of a Windows98 computer and install to the same location on your Win95 machine, then run it from the Run command under the start menu. Check the Startup tab to see if Internet Explorer is listed there, and uncheck the box if it is. The previous response might be helpful if you meant your dialup window when you said Internet Explorer. If that's the case, go to Start|Settings|Control Panel|Internet Options. Click onthe Connections tab, and change the dialup setting to Never Dial a Connection. That will stop the dialup window from popping up.

by jctech

When I said install I meant to simply paste the file to your Windows\System directory.

by shanghai sam

Thank You! What I ended up doing was to remove the file loadwc.exe from the run folder in the registry.

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