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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 11:21 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(1 messages posted)
Thanks! I was experiencing the same problem, and you nailed it.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 5:55 am, same2you wrote:
>The most likely reason that this began happening to you is that you changed the
file
>properties of explorer to "Show hidden files" and to not "Hide protected system
files".
> Desktop.ini is a file that contains settings for how your files and folders are
>seen within explorer (eg. thumbnails vs. folder view). Since you probably have
not
>set all folders to be the same, a desktop.ini file is placed in any folder that
is
>not normal... like in your startup directory. The attrib command is simply re-hiding
>the desktop.ini files (which they were before changing the folder view settings),
>and allowing your folders to still have customized views because the system is the
>only thing that can see the file.
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