re: my documents fills screen at startup Monday, September 26, 2005 at 7:07 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Steve Try this Copy the text below (just the text below the ---- lines) into NotePad and save it as fixdesktop.reg Once you have it saved close it. Now find the file you just made and Doubl.click on it. The file will edit the reg file for you. Now reboot and try it. --------------------------------------- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Shell"="explorer.exe" --------------------------------------- Hope this helps a bit. On Monday, September 26, 2005 at 6:46 pm, steve marlatt wrote: >At startup as the icons in the quick start tray are loading, My Documents fills the >screen. I can close it after several seconds, but it's one more irritant I don't >need. I already tried MSCONFIG, and no, it's not listed in start up. Written in response to: my documents fills screen at startup (steve marlatt: Monday, September 26, 2005 at 6:46 pm) Responses to this message: re: my documents fills screen at startup (steve marlatt: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 4:24 am) All messages in this thread [show all] my documents fills screen at startup (steve marlatt: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 6:46 pm) re: my documents fills screen at startup (DEX: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 7:07 pm) re: my documents fills screen at startup (steve marlatt: Tue, Sep 27, 2005, 4:24 am) re: my documents fills screen at startup (adrian: Tue, Sep 27, 2005, 8:19 am) re: my documents fills screen at startup (steve marlatt: Tue, Sep 27, 2005, 5:55 pm) re: my documents fills screen at startup (adrian: Wed, Sep 28, 2005, 5:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum