I have a question about Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup:

Every time I shutdown, I close all the windows and folders that might be open. My computer shuts down and off on it's own. Yet when I boot up, hit at the Windows Logon, any folder I've ever left open after a previous shutdown continues to open up during loading.

I've searched the registry for signs of what might be opening the folders as well as other files in C:\Windows.

I am completely at a loss. Does this just mean I need to login to Windows Logon every time I boot up?

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 hello
go to start--run--   and type :msconfig
 then  ok
 
go startup
uncheck all the boxes for the programes that start with windows   ok   good luck





On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 12:52 pm, B.K. DeLong wrote:
>I have a question about Get 
>Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup:

>
>
Every time I shutdown, I close all the windows and folders that might be open. 
>My computer shuts down and off on it's own. Yet when I boot up, hit  at the 
>Windows Logon, any folder I've ever left open after a previous shutdown continues 
>to open up during loading.
>
>
I've searched the registry for signs of what might be opening the folders as 
well 
>as other files in C:\Windows.
>
>
I am completely at a loss. Does this just mean I need to login to Windows Logon 
>every time I boot up?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>

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On Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 10:45 am, kassabk wrote:
> hello
>go to start--run-- and type :msconfig
> then ok

No luck. GREAT program though, thanks for pointing it out.

I think it has something to do with the desktop layout (ie Window positions and icon positions) when the machine is shut down. Anyone know where that info is stored?

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and after youve done that, recheck scanregistry and taskmonitor (unless you dont need the latter). scanreg makes backups of the registry, and taskmonitor keeps a database of frequently used programs which defrag then uses to rearrange the harddrive.

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I have the complete opposite situation to the initial question. Explorer doesnt remember which folders I have opened at shutdown. So when I start up next time, all the folders I was viewing previously do not open. This is recent, it wasnt like this before, I was doing massive clean ups in the registry and deleting loads of files and may have inadvertantly adjusted something. How can I get explorer to remember what was opened on the desktop?

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I have the same problem. Does anyone have a solution? Windows 2000 Professional is not reopening the explorer windows that I had open when I shut down.

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I have the same problem except that: - I'm running windows 98 - the only thing I did was to install the current version of IE6. I had previously been running an old version of IE5. - After I downloaded IE6, I ran the setup program. It did its work. A restart was needed to be able to use IE6. The *first* time I rebooted after installing IE6, open windows were remembered and appeared as usual. Since that first time though, they have not appeared.

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I just installed IE6 am having the same "last state" memory problem with windows 98. Has anyone yet found an answer?


On Friday, May 23, 2003 at 7:00 pm, Mr. French wrote:
>I have the same problem except that:
>
> - I'm running windows 98
>
> - the only thing I did was to install the current version of IE6. I had previously
>been running an old version of IE5.
>
> - After I downloaded IE6, I ran the setup program. It did its work. A restart
>was needed to be able to use IE6. The *first* time I rebooted after installing IE6,
>open windows were remembered and appeared as usual. Since that first time though,
>they have not appeared.
>

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I have Internet Explorer v6.0.2800.1106 installed and I get a random,,, Internet Explorer has preformed an illigal operation and will be shut down. It happens Out-of-the-Blue and, for no reason, that I know. I could be writing Mail or reading Pages-and-Browsing or anything like that. What could be a fix for that, and could I try re-installing IE over the present version? Or, what would work? Any reply to fix this would be just great..


On Friday, May 23, 2003 at 7:00 pm, Mr. French wrote:
>I have the same problem except that:
>
> - I'm running windows 98
>
> - the only thing I did was to install the current version of IE6. I had previously
>been running an old version of IE5.
>
> - After I downloaded IE6, I ran the setup program. It did its work. A restart
>was needed to be able to use IE6. The *first* time I rebooted after installing IE6,
>open windows were remembered and appeared as usual. Since that first time though,
>they have not appeared.
>

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So what was the solution to getting Windows 2000 Professional to remember open windows?


On Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:46 am, Keith Miller wrote:
>
>I have the same problem. Does anyone have a solution? Windows 2000 Professional is
>not reopening the explorer windows that I had open when I shut down.

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To active this option in Windows 2000 navigate to the key NoSaveSettings in the registry and set the value to 1 : Key current user, Software, Microsoft, Windows NT, Current version, Program manager, Restrictions, NoSaveSettings = 1 Regards, Emilio


On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 at 3:18 pm, John wrote:
>So what was the solution to getting Windows 2000 Professional to remember open windows?
>
>

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