Startup- explorer.exe?

[British_Command]

Whenever I seem to logon to windows vista since I formatted my comp. it seems to take forever to logon and also it always opens My documents for some reason and that is the only thing that is displayed so I will do Ctrl alt del to run tskmanager and run the explorer.exe and everything is fine but why do I have to do this? Unless somehow I have stopped explorer.exe from running on startup.

Thanks.

 

[mscrx]

I don't have a vista machine here at the moment but it should be the same or almost the same registry key you can look after:

open regedit and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

look for the string 'shell'. it should have the value 'explorer.exe' with no parameters or something. if not make it 'explorer.exe' and reboot.

you will need admin rights to do so!

you can also check the following keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

if there is something suspicious or something that would indicate explorer.exe to not run or kill it.

 

[British_Command]

nope

nah didnt work although thanks

 

[Blind Dragon]

I would have suggested the same exact thing. Under those lines in your registry

does shell ="explorer"

or does shell = "explorer and something different"

if it says anything other than just explorer you need to change it to only explorer

 

[Po`Girl]

The Microsoft page for this issue is HERE

It`s the same as what`s already been mentioned,but you may find it useful

Also,go in to the msconfig (HERE) and uncheck explorer.exe

or anything similar.

Sounds like you have either just removed spyware,or still have spyware,so look HERE

 

[mscrx]

thanks for the msconfig in vista link! very useful to me as well
I would have suggested a spyware thing as the next step to look for too.