re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 3:23 pm
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Posted by nodata
(1 messages posted)
ok,
This is FOR SURE how to fix this problem. I had the same problem on my machine,
and this is what I did to fix it:
ok i fixed it, but it took some HEAVY digging (for me anyway) to figure out how...this
is what I did (documenting it for further reference)
First off, I figured it had to be a system file attribute association, since I could
not remove (hide) the file by selecting to hide system files in the folder view.
(Desktop.ini is originally associated as a windows system file, and is by default,
hidden.) So to fix both problems I did this:
1. Open up the command prompt.
2. Went to the C: drive
3. typed this: attrib -h -s desktop.ini /s
(What this command did was dissassociate every desktop.ini file in every directory
of the C: drive [my hard drive] as being a system or hidden file. I had to do this
first because you cannot change [or add attributes to] files that are associated
as system or hidden files.)
4. Then typed this: attrib +h +s desktop.ini /s
(This did the reverse of the last command and associated all the desktop.ini
files as system and hidden files. Thus removing them from all folder views.)
Now, the strange thing is...I did NOT go into the command line to remove* these properties,
so I don't know HOW they got screwed up in the first place. Also, I know I'm not
the only person to have had this problem, but as far as I know, I am the only one
to have fixed it...and posted anything about it.
*screw up
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
>
>
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