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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 4:26 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dennis
(1 messages posted)
My name is Dennis. I am an old man and a grandfather of 5. I would like to thank
whomever it was that wrote the instructions on how to fix this problem. I did as
you said and your instructions fixed this most irritating problem. Thanks so much.
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 3:23 pm, nodata wrote:
>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
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>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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