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| Thread ID: 91755 | 2008-07-17 11:09:00 | Laptop starting with Bin folder displayed | Robin S_ (86) | Press F1 |
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| 689850 | 2008-07-17 11:09:00 | My wife has a Sony laptop fitted with XP Pro. Recently, every time it starts it guns up OK but displays a blank page with a Bin folder in the top LH corner. The path is C:\Program Files\Common (not Common Files)\(Bin). The folder is not open but contains only 4 files - iviaudio.ax, iviaudioeff.ax, iviav.ax and ivivideo.ax. There are no scheduled tasks, and the Startup folder contains only Adobe Gamma Loader.exe, Epson Status Monitor, Microsoft Office (whose Startup folder is empty) and Power Panel. No intentional changes have been made to the setup. Any suggestions as to why this page now displays, what started it and how to stop it? I am guessing that Windows is somehow being told to open in the Common folder but I have not been able to find/figure out how to do or cancel this. TIA. |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 689851 | 2008-07-17 11:18:00 | Is WinDVD installed? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 689852 | 2008-07-17 11:19:00 | Click start/Run type in msconfig Press <Enter or OK>look at the startup tab, see if its listed there to run on start up, as far as i know it shouldn't be, if it is untick it and reboot. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 689853 | 2008-07-17 11:35:00 | Check to see if "Restore previous folder windows at login" in Tools / Options / View [tab] / Advanced settings in an explorer window is checked. If so, try unchecking it. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 689854 | 2008-07-17 23:36:00 | Thanks for the replies. Speedy - not sure what Windvd is but haven't intentionally installed it. Will check Add/Remove progs later to see if there is any sign of it. Wainuitech - have already been through msconfig but couldn't find anything there. Wuppo - will check that setting later. |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 689855 | 2008-07-18 05:21:00 | Id say if what Wuppo doesn't work, try doing a system restore to before it started doing that. | Blackflag486 (13947) | ||
| 689856 | 2008-07-18 05:23:00 | Id say if what Wuppo doesn't work, try doing a system restore to before it started doing that. And if that doesn't work, post a HijackThis (www.trendsecure.com) log. :thumbs: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 689857 | 2008-07-18 06:32:00 | Make sure you don't have a shortcut to that folder in your Startup folder in the start menu.. known by microsoft that sometimes you can get a problem where the system32 folder always opens on startup... but never heard of any random one. forum.soft32.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 689858 | 2008-07-18 11:21:00 | Blackflag - the problem apparently started over a week ago so I am not sure if there is a restore point that goes far enough back. Wratterus - I may have to resort to Hijackthis but there are a few things I would like to try first. Agent 24 - there is no such shortcut in the Startup folder. Your forum link might be a clue - will probably try following that up. I haven't yet had a chance to have a session on the laptop to check out some of the suggestions here. I suspect, however, that the real clue may lie in a book on XP by Peter Norton. He says that it is possible to have any designated file or folder opened when Windows starts but unfortunately he doesn't give any instructions for doing that. It might be relatively easy to do that for an Office file, for instance, but that doesn't cover this case. Does anyone know of any startup switches for XP or Windows Explorer that will cause a file/folder to be displayed on startup? |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 689859 | 2008-07-18 11:27:00 | We may have to see whats in startup to see what maybe causing it to open | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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