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Folder opens at startup, stop?
Name: drewnbrew Date: February 24, 2004 at 08:44:04 Pacific OS: Win NT 4.0 CPU/Ram: P4/512
Comment:
Hello, I need to stop a folder from opening on startup. I can't figure out how to keep it from coming up. It is a useless folder that the previous owner thought he needed to have opened on startup, but I don't need it.. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: February 25, 2004 at 06:46:32 Pacific
Reply:
What's the folder?
I'd first check the Startup folder in your profile and see if the shortucut is there. If not, if you're Administrator on the machine, you can delete it from the All Users profile Startup Folder.
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