Ever since I recently upgraded the Radeon drivers on my Win2k box it insists on opening an explorer window at startup, opened to C:\Program Files\ATI\

Anyone know what could be causing this? It's not in any profiles Start menu. I'm guessing that something in the registry could be causing it, but I wouldn't know where to look.

Help!

You might want to check out the "Run" and "Run Once" version of: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Hell? Purgatory perhaps...

I was expecting BSOD stories and random lockups. One measly explorer window. Sheesh!



-Zeke

No, not there. I checked the corresponding paths under the other roots too.

Startup group in the menu?

First thing I checked;

It's not in any profiles Start menu

Done the anti-virus and adaware/spybot thing yet?

Not yet. This box lives behind a firewall, doesn't do email and only uses mozilla occasionally for obtaining software upgrades. No p2p either.

I suppose it's possible, and I will go and do that now.

Doh. Sorry. Didn't notice that!

The next option is to systematically take out ATI entries in the run/runonce section of the registry. It's happened before to me but with a different driver and it turned out one of the helper apps was broken and kept bringing up the windows dir.

Maybe Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel add-on applet can help you track it down.....Randy

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

AVG negative, adaware caught a couple of data mines and a handful of tracking cookies. Registry Mechanic (the free version) found a handful of unrelated errors. It indicated a handful of other errors that only the $30 version would fix...not ready to had over my CC just yet.

The problem is still there. I'll check that new link next.

http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

i love this program
it will ask if you want to allow any addition to the registry of the 'run at startup' type