Windows Explorer always opens on start-up

[James]

Hi,

I installed a new hard disk and copied all files across to it.  I re-installed XP Home over the top of it, and now use that as the main boot disk, with my old smaller disk as a slave.

Ever since I did this, I always get Windows Explorer opening on start-up to My Documents with folders shown on the LH window.  This is not in my Startup folder and is not left open when I shutdown.

How can I stop this happening every time I boot.

Many thanks for any advice,

James

[jondoh]

Try this, James.

Set The Default Folder That Opens When Windows Explorer Is Run
Windows NT 4/2000/XP

Let's suppose that you want Windows Explorer to open in the root folder of Drive C:. Right-click the Windows Explorer shortcut that you use to run the program and choose Properties. When the Windows Explorer Properties dialog box opens, click the Shortcut tab. Click in the Target entry box, and then press End. Add to the end of the existing line /e, c:\. The complete line in the Target entry box should now be: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, c:\. The /e switch tells Windows Explorer to open in the two pane explorer mode and the c:\ tells it to open in folder C:\.

If you wish to have Explorer open at My Documents, you would use %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, c:\My Documents.

If you omit the /e switch, Windows opens in a single pane view.

[rambler]

In Registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

delete the value DesktopProcess if it exists

If it doesn't, I can't help any further, I'm sorry.