Hit a Platform with error message

Using Start / Settings... / Taskbar / Advance, check the Startup folder (both under your user and the All Users -- so there's two places). See if anything is burried in there, like a shortcut.

Next, check and see if AUTOEXEC.BAT has an entry added into it.

I might be wrong with this, but I have seen this once, with a machine infected with the W32.Navidad virus.
Please go to:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html
(please remove any spaces)

And if you can, run afull virus scan.

hope this helps

Use regedit32 and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
Windows
Current Version
RUN
Check each entry and look for a path to a file that has a space in it with out double quotes at both ends.

You'll probably find one like this:
C:\Program Files\Myprogram.exe

It should look like:
"C:\Program Files\Myprogram.exe"

While you're there, check what program it's pointing to and why. You can set security on the three run keys to only allow administrators to write to them, everybody else to read if you've got probs. with elves playing around.