Windows Explorer opening at start up


  1. Beancounter69
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    Windows Home Premium 64 bit
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    Windows Explorer opening at start up


    A windows explorer page is opening whenever my system boots up. I am running Windows 7 Premium Home 64 bit on a Toshiba laptop. This is a recent occurence but I cannot find what is causing this. I have checked the msconfig and nothing seems to be directly causing this. I have also checked the startup folder and the issue does not appear to be there either. Any help would be appreciated.
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  3. Jacee
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
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    What explorer page is it?
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  4. Dwarf
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    Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
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    What are the following registry locations showing?

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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  6. Beancounter69
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    Jacee said:
    What explorer page is it?

    It is My Documents from my user name
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  7. Beancounter69
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    Dwarf said:
    What are the following registry locations showing?

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    Current User shows 8 items
    • Aim
    • EA core
    • igndlm.exe
    • msnmsgr
    • MyToshiba
    • Sidebar
    • Skype
    • swg
    Local Machine shows 16 items
    • 00TCrdMain
    • cAudioFilterAgent
    • Corel Photo Downloader
    • HDMICtrlMan
    • HotKeysCmds
    • HSON
    • IgfxTray
    • Persistence
    • SmartFaceVWatcher
    • SmoothView
    • SynTPEnh
    • Teco
    • ThpSrv
    • TosSENotify
    • TosWaitSrv
    • TPwrMain
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  8. Jacee
    Posts : 8,608
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
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    Not sure which one is the culprit, but have a look here My Documents Folder Opens At Windows Startup | Troubleshooting | Technize - Be Techdated
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