re: Upon starting Excel it opens all desktop files
Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 7:29 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ntcleric
(1 messages posted)
I found this registry entry as the culprit:
KEY:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel\Options
VALUE:
AltStartup
STRING:
(in my case, it was the desktop folder for my user account)
C:\Documents and Settings\(myusername)\Desktop
I found that once I cleared the string for this value (AltStartup)
it stopped opening all the files on my desktop. I tested this by
putting another folder name in this registry value, and Excel
opened (or attempted to open) ALL of the files in that directory
(including files that have nothing to do with Excel!).
On Wednesday, August 29, 2001 at 11:40 am, Clark wrote:
>When I open Excel it opens all the files on my desktop that it recognizes. Why?
> Does anyone else have this prob, and how do I stop it?
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