start menu

[prepress_brillance_43]

this is not a "problem" rather and annoyance.

one of my users on my home PC, when logging in, it automattically opens my start menu. :roll: :lol: anyone else seen anything like this, or know what causes or what to do to make it stop??(besides creating a new user and deleting the old one)

[gig0]

1st, check your startup folder under that user and make sure you can verify the startup items. There could be a rogue entry in there.

If nothing becomes of that run msconfig.exe located in the c:\windows\system folder under XP. If it's win2k, you can find it on google and download.

Msconfig is a very handy system application that gives you all sorts of details including what services are running, startup items and much more . You should be able to track down the culprit in the startup items tab.

[prepress_brillance_43]

thanks GIG, Im looking now.

[prepress_brillance_43]

Alrighty, nothing "rogue"... and could not find msconfig.exe... I AM running XP???? SO, I dunno??? frustratin' why would there be a DAT file named NTUSER?? is that s'posed to be there?? There also was a shortcut to Remote Assistant??? WTF? I am far too sketched out after being "rooted" back in the spring, every little thing I find that's peculiar, I ASSUME THE WORST... the more I learn the more I fear.... :x

[gig0]

you can download it here:

http://www.techadvice.cc/files/y44b1...p/msconfig.exe

if you look under the startup tab it shows startup applications and their respective registry keys. Just find the entry that doesn't belong and uncheck it.

And the ntuser.dat file is your user profile. Don't worry about it. It needs to be there.

[prepress_brillance_43]

thanks GIG. I ran, msconfig.exe and went through the programs listed on startup tab, to no avail. SOOO, I create a new user. First time I log in, start menu opens. 8O :x Here's the weird part, my fiance's user, does not do it, and my admin user does not do it..... scratching my head here... they are all setup the same. :? :?

[Joe]

Pressing the Windows logo key opens the start menu. Is it possible you are accidentally pressing it or maybe it has a case of the stickies?

[gig0]

well make sure that the all those startup registry entries can be verified. Deleting program files instead of uninstalling will leave rogue entries in your registry and cause things like this. And double check that you don't have any old instances of Norton in there. That program tends to be a bit sloppy when uninstalling and/or upgrading to newer versions.

[prepress_brillance_43]

Originally Posted by Joe

Pressing the Windows logo key opens the start menu. Is it possible you are accidentally pressing it or maybe it has a case of the stickies?

hey joe. thanks for the thought. but alas I havent been hitting the windows key. I think GIG is on to something. I bet something got deleted instead of uninstalled, Im just not sure which it is....

I'll look again tonight when I get home.

anyone have any good programs out there that "clean up"(I guess that's the right word) the registry and can be trusted?....

[seetomtype]

I'd try to get a piece of software that allows you to see your startup processes. It
sounds like there may be something running on boot that is opening your menu. I'd
suggest Spybot as it has a tool that allows you to view and kill processes that start
on boot. It also sounds like there may be a chance that you have a program doing this
for you. If in fact you do find a process running that you can't remove, try
MoveOnBoot, which allows you to navigate to the offensive file and kill it before
Windows loads on restart.

Spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

MoveOnBoot
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html

GigO's suggestion may have already covered this ground though...