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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 7:50 am
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Posted by will read (4 messages posted)

To answer my post, I finally tracked it down to SPMSMON.exe in the HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current_version\Run registry key. (http://castlecops.com/s10785-SPMSMON_EXE.html) Deleting this entry with Hijack This, seems to cure the problem. Not sure what it is supposed to do though, may be some sort of malware/spyware.

On Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 6:11 am, will read wrote:
>I've tried most of the suggestions herer, I think(!). But whenever I logon my machine
>insists on opening "My Computer". I thought the message about having spaces in the
>entries for HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>would do it, but quite a lot DO have spaces (e.g. many starting with C:\Program Files...)
>However, enclosing these in quotes seems to have no effect.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>

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Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (David: Mon, Oct 21, 2002, 3:18 am)

re: Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (Adam Bradley: Mon, Oct 21, 2002, 2:50 pm)

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re: Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (sam: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 6:00 pm)

re: Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (jcw: Mon, Oct 21, 2002, 11:34 pm)

re: Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (Frank Whitman: Sun, Jan 5, 2003, 9:51 am)

Hey, that worked!!! Thanks!!! (TheRealCorsican: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 9:20 pm)

re: Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (John Bradshaw: Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 2:05 am)

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re: Question about 'Get Rid of the Unwanted Explorer Windows at Startup' (Steve: Mon, Jul 4, 2005, 8:01 am)

Thank you Mr. Frank Whitman! (Wayne: Wed, Oct 19, 2005, 12:44 pm)

re: Thank you Mr. Frank Whitman! (Huey: Tue, Feb 21, 2006, 11:02 am)

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