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by Member 23567752

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I support about 100 PC's, all running NT4.0 Workstation. On several of these machines (over half), when I log on as the local administrator, Internet Explorer (5.1) starts up automatically. Now, it never actaully connects (to a web page), until IE is shut down and restarted, but I want to know why it is starting up in the first place!

It is just like it is running from the startup folder of a profile, but there are no shortcuts in any of the profiles (including All users), and it is not partof any scripts.

Recently, the same problem is occurring to a number of users around the office, and I'm stumped as to how to fix it.

Thanks in advance.

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by jwilczyn

Go to Taskbar Properties-Start Manu Programs, next Advanced and find the StartUp folder - open it and remove/delete IE.
IE won't start up again after restarting PC.

by Member 23567752

As I mentioned above, IE is starting as if it was listed in the startup folder, but there are no entries there to remove. That is why it is so confusing.

by Member 35711908

Have you checked in Task Scheduler? If it's running, it will be a little icon in your task bar. Doubleclick it to open it up and see what's scheduled and for when.

by Member 23567752

No, again no luck. It starts as soon as you logon to the system. I'm now also thinking it is a bit like when a window isn't shut down when loggng off (say control panel), the next time you log on control panel reappears. Perhaps the IE application isn't fully closing properly when shut down???

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