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"My Documents" opens on login - Help!

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by chris.furnell

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Hi,

When a user logs in, it opens the contents of their "MY Documents" Folder. I've checked registry settings (particularly userinit - which is fine) all the HKLM/HKCU...Windows...Run keys - everything seems fine. I can see no evidence of the Dlder.exe trojan, either.

I've deleted the local profile, and re-logged in, and that seems to work, but I've got a number of people that this affects - so doing that for each of them isn't practical.

Can anyone suggest anything that it might be?

Thanks in advance
Chris.

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by daring

Although you probably close windows when rebooting, try disabling "Restore Previous folder windows at logon" in Windows Explorer settings. Maybe it will set something off.

If this is happening to every workstation in a domain, poke around at whatever group policies are set up which might be doing something similar.

by chris.furnell

We eventually find the source of the problem: We'd got Folder Redirection set up, but only for documents and outlook files. The registry keys associated with Start Menu, Startup and Programs had become populated with the UNC path of the server that hosted the My Documents folder (HKCU...windows\current version\explorer\user shell folders\). This should have been the local path for these file (C:\documents and settings\Start Menu\Programs etc).

When we changed the registry keys on an affected machine - BINGO!

Many thanks for your help and suggestions!

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