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by labrat

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I have a user running XP Home who got a few viruses. I was able to scrubbed the viruses out of his system. But after booting many times after cleaning the virus, the system started opening 2 windows to his My Documents folder every time he logs on. He's a VP and is complaining about this. The Startup Folder is clean. I've looked under Run and RunOnce in the registry but nothing there. Why is the system opening these windows and how can I stop it?

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by pierrejamme

look under the Run and RunServices in regedit (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) for anything that might do it, for example Run ".

by labrat

I know I didn't specify that I had looked under the RunServices but, yes, I did check there. I checked all "runs" under both local machine and current user. Thanks for for the suggestion.

by labrat

Maybe what I'm looking for is a way to manually save the current desktop state so the next boot should start with no open windows. Suggestions?

by labrat

Thanks. I have run Hijack This, Ad-Aware, and SpyBot as part of scrubbing the virus.

Today, the user reported it was not doing it. He rebooted 4 times this morning and it has stopped. He wanted to know how I got in his office last nite to fix it!! LOL!

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