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Question about 'Startup Programs Run Twice When Windows Loads'
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Question about 'Startup Programs Run Twice When Windows Loads'
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:45 am
Posted by ken miles
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about Startup
Programs Run Twice When Windows Loads:
I'm keen to fix this problem on my PC (Vista x64) but there's a couple of things
in the article I would be grateful for clarification. Firstly in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ User Shell Folders the article
says 'correct the values', but doesn't say what to? Mine is currently set to "%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup".
Secondly the latter part says to adjust the common startup value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ User Shell Folders, but "common
startup" doesn't exist, am I supposed to create it?
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re: Question about 'Startup Programs Run Twice When Windows Loads'
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 4:34 am
Posted by Deb
(1434 messages posted)
Which article are you referring too?
I found this on searching Google;
This is an issue related to the way that the registry works that has plagued XP and
it HAS NOT YET been fixed on Vista.
It normally happens when the sole-user of a PC tries to merge the content of his
User-specific Start Menu Programs folder
(C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Start Menu\Programs)
with the content of the All-users Start Menu Programs folder
(C:\Documents and Settings\ALL USERS\Start Menu\Programs), for the sake of manageability.
I have googled a solution to this back then, and the good news is that it is totally
applicable for Vista too:
http://www.somacon.com/p398.php
Please note that the article was written for XP, so if you want it to work on Vista
please consider "C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Start Menu\Programs"
as "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"
Hope that helps.
On Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:45 am, ken miles wrote:
>I have a question about Startup
>Programs Run Twice When Windows Loads:
>I'm keen to fix this problem on my PC (Vista x64) but there's a couple of things
>in the article I would be grateful for clarification. Firstly in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
>SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ User Shell Folders the article
>says 'correct the values', but doesn't say what to? Mine is currently set to "%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start
>Menu\Programs\Startup".
>Secondly the latter part says to adjust the common startup value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
>SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ User Shell Folders, but
"common
>startup" doesn't exist, am I supposed to create it?
>
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re: Question about 'Startup Programs Run Twice When Windows Loads'
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 12:55 am
Posted by Nico Verwer
(1 messages posted)
On Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:45 am, ken miles wrote:
>... in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
>SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ User Shell Folders the article
>says 'correct the values', but doesn't say what to?
Look at the registry values surrounding that one, and make it similar.
>Secondly the latter part says to adjust the common startup value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
>SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ User Shell Folders, but
"common
>startup" doesn't exist, am I supposed to create it?
That is a typo in the article. It should be "startup".
With these changes, the fix worked perfectly for me. Thanks!
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