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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 7:29 am
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Posted by woody (8 messages posted)

Windows creates a desktop.ini in any folder that you have viewed in the thumbnail mode. Make sure you don't have the thumbnail view enabled in either of the desktop folders, and then you can delete the file.

On Sunday, December 16, 2001 at 12:16 am, Michael wrote:
>Every time I start a program, I get a desktop.ini notebook that pops up on my screen.
> I realize its probably something that is normally masked in the background. How
>do I make this go away? Thanks folks.
>
>Here it is:
>
>[LocalizedFileNames]
>Launch Internet Explorer Browser.lnk=@%systemroot%\system32\shell32.dll,-22037
>Windows Media Player.lnk=@C:\WINDOWS\inf\unregmp2.exe,-4
>
>
>

Written in response to:: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Trouble exporting Internet Explorer Favorites Jpz: Sunday, December 16, 2001 at 12:16 am)

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Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Trouble exporting Internet Explorer Favorites Jpz: Sun, Dec 16, 2001, 12:16 am)

re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Jon: Sun, Dec 16, 2001, 2:49 am)

re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Trouble exporting Internet Explorer Favorites Jpz: Sun, Dec 16, 2001, 8:36 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (woody: Thu, Dec 27, 2001, 7:29 am)

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