My Computer folder opens automatically

[Rick Schleicher]

Hello,

We have 4 users who log onto 1 XP machine at home, 1 of
the 4 logon users is different in that each time they are
logged on, "My Computer" opens automatically and I can't
figure out why or how.

I don't want it to open automatically.

I searched the 'Startup' in MSCONFIG as instructed a
couple of weeks ago but no luck. I even turned everything
off except for Norton AV with no luck.

Below is the thread that I followed unsuccesfully

Again, thanks for everyones help

Rick.

MVP Chris Jackson explains this problem very well (i
quote him below). It
will help you in fixing the problem.

"This is a fun one to solve. First, a little background:

Back in the days of DOS, you weren't allowed to have
spaces in your file
names. In fact, a space indicated that you were done
typing the path to your
application, and any text that followed would be given to
the application as
an argument. So, if you wanted to start program.exe with
the argument
"runfast" you would enter:

c:\program.exe runfast

Nowadays, you are allowed to have spaces. So, the
operating system has to
figure out if your space indicates a space in the path to
your program, or
if it indicates that you are done typing the path, and
are now typing
arguments. It does this by actually searching to see if
the following
characters actually do represent a path or not. If it
find it, then it uses
it as a path. If not, then it uses it as an argument.

So, if you have c:\directory\sub directory\program.exe,
*if* it finds the
directory "sub directory" then it will go to it and look
for program.exe. If
it doesn't find it, then it will try to launch
c:\directory\sub and then
give it the argument directory\program.exe.

When you get these popups, it's almost always because you
are going to
c:\documents and settings\my documents\ so that it feeds
your invalid path to Windows Explorer as an argument, and
the result is a
window that pops up at that directory.

To fix it, open up msconfig and look for any paths that
have spaces in it,
but are *not* enclosed in question marks. (Question marks
indicate that the
entire string should be interpreted as a path, so it
doesn't have to guess.)
It should list where the startup settings are found - so
head on over to
this location and change it so long file names (with
spaces) ARE enclosed in
quotes, and this should solve the problem."

[John]

My explorer opens to C:\Windows\System32 upon startup. Is
this a similar problem. Its driving me nuts. Thanks.

John

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[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

System32 Folder Opens When Logging on to Windows [Q170086]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q170086
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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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