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Win.exe ??? What's that ? You have no need for such a program. Can't see it running in my XP task manager.

Check for virus, quick...

Go into registry and expanf local machine/software/microsoft/current version/ and look at all the run subfolders, your culprit is here. Click in right side panel and delete the culprit. go to this site to see start items and what to do
www.pacsportal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm

I have had this very thing. Norton didn't flag it as a virus! It was a program that mysteriously appeared and began throwing out random popup advertisements -- probably self-installed when you visited some web site.

Go to either your WINDOWS directory or your WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory and delete it!

Tom G

Warning- I agree with the above answer, "win.exe" is NOT part of MS Windows XP, but deleting it may not fix everything. Please review the antivirus site of your choice relating to a virus that leaves that file as the "payload". There may also be registry entries and specifics about removal. Do a virus scan NOW, please...

Try going to this website www.mlin.net/startupCPl.shtml and down load the StartupCPL.exe
This is a neat little tool that lets you see what is running at your startup and lets you disable it. it is almost like a GUI registry.

Good luck