Explorer.exe
 

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility Startup, along
with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All others were not
ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also present in the
Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this absence of Explorer normal
(been there for 9 years....}????

--
cogito ergo sum

Explorer.exe
 

I've never known Explorer to be in MSConfig | Startup unless manually
placed there by a user to open a specific folder each time they boot their
system. It isn't present in a clean new install made using Microsoft
retail media. The default entries being:
ScanRegistry
TaskMonitor
PCHealth
SystemTray
LoadPowerProfile x2 (do not remove either)
Scheduling Agent
StateMgr
A fully updated system would have had KB891711 and KB918547 added as a
result of installing the hotfixes of the same number. SSDPPSRV would also
be present if the user had chosen to enable Universal PnP in Windows Setup
| Communications.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility Startup,
along with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All others
were not ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also present in
the Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this absence of
Explorer normal (been there for 9 years....}????

Explorer.exe
 

There I was about to ask if anyone knew semaphore, as my cat seems to be
telling me "ears", or possibly more specifically "2 ears", but for all I
know it might be like a signal beamed into outer space in the hope of
finding alien life and she's actually saying "1 + 1 = 2"!

But I think Pat (Paul) has beaten me to it.


Shane

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've never known Explorer to be in MSConfig | Startup unless manually
placed there by a user to open a specific folder each time they boot their
system. It isn't present in a clean new install made using Microsoft
retail media. The default entries being:
ScanRegistry
TaskMonitor
PCHealth
SystemTray
LoadPowerProfile x2 (do not remove either)
Scheduling Agent
StateMgr
A fully updated system would have had KB891711 and KB918547 added as a
result of installing the hotfixes of the same number. SSDPPSRV would also
be present if the user had chosen to enable Universal PnP in Windows Setup
| Communications.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility Startup,
along with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All others
were not ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also present in
the Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this absence of
Explorer normal (been there for 9 years....}????

Explorer.exe
 

Mike, tks for reply and to Shane for his sense of humor, I think thats what
it was... Welll I lived nine years with Explorer.exe in my MSConfig, and
last week it disappeared. Yes I have or had:
PCHealth (got rid of it some times ago), LoadPowerProfile x2 and Scheduling
Agent were also removed. As for the two KB, they are there. The SSDPSRV
removed long time ago, and the very few games I use self start ok. My last
question was a "silly" one and I knew there was another in mind, well thats
it. Tks guys.


--
cogito ergo sum


"Shane" wrote:

There I was about to ask if anyone knew semaphore, as my cat seems to be
telling me "ears", or possibly more specifically "2 ears", but for all I
know it might be like a signal beamed into outer space in the hope of
finding alien life and she's actually saying "1 + 1 = 2"!

But I think Pat (Paul) has beaten me to it.


Shane

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've never known Explorer to be in MSConfig | Startup unless manually
placed there by a user to open a specific folder each time they boot their
system. It isn't present in a clean new install made using Microsoft
retail media. The default entries being:
ScanRegistry
TaskMonitor
PCHealth
SystemTray
LoadPowerProfile x2 (do not remove either)
Scheduling Agent
StateMgr
A fully updated system would have had KB891711 and KB918547 added as a
result of installing the hotfixes of the same number. SSDPPSRV would also
be present if the user had chosen to enable Universal PnP in Windows Setup
| Communications.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility Startup,
along with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All others
were not ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also present in
the Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this absence of
Explorer normal (been there for 9 years....}????

Explorer.exe
 

You will always see explorer.exe running when you Ctrl-Alt as it is the
"shell", that is the layer between you and the operating system, that is
unless you are running an alternative shell. It is however most unusual
to see explorer.exe in the start-up list in the way you mention although I
should have perhaps mentioned earlier that in the past more than one nasty
or virus has masqueraded as explorer.exe although in that case the version
being launched was not the customary Microsoft file that lives in the
windows folder but another that the virus had placed elsewhere such as in
windows\system or windows\system32.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Mike, tks for reply and to Shane for his sense of humor, I think
thats what it was... Welll I lived nine years with Explorer.exe in
my MSConfig, and last week it disappeared. Yes I have or had:
PCHealth (got rid of it some times ago), LoadPowerProfile x2 and
Scheduling Agent were also removed. As for the two KB, they are
there. The SSDPSRV removed long time ago, and the very few games I
use self start ok. My last question was a "silly" one and I knew
there was another in mind, well thats it. Tks guys.

Explorer.exe
 

Well, you're welcome. And I think that's what it was, though I actually was
about to ask that, but you kind of took the sale out of my wind. However, it
seems to me that in msconfig - if that's what you mean, as opposed to some
other utility such as Startup Control panel - what you'd see Explorer.exe in
is System.ini (as indeed you would see it *in* System.ini - as in the line
shell=explorer.exe). Perhaps that's the one you're thinking of?

And perhaps she's being more cryptic and it's about triangles. Possibly -
since they stick up - a reference to pyramids?

Shane

PAT (Paul) wrote:
Mike, tks for reply and to Shane for his sense of humor, I think
thats what it was... Welll I lived nine years with Explorer.exe in
my MSConfig, and last week it disappeared. Yes I have or had:
PCHealth (got rid of it some times ago), LoadPowerProfile x2 and
Scheduling Agent were also removed. As for the two KB, they are
there. The SSDPSRV removed long time ago, and the very few games I
use self start ok. My last question was a "silly" one and I knew
there was another in mind, well thats it. Tks guys.



There I was about to ask if anyone knew semaphore, as my cat seems
to be telling me "ears", or possibly more specifically "2 ears", but
for all I know it might be like a signal beamed into outer space in
the hope of finding alien life and she's actually saying "1 + 1 = 2"!

But I think Pat (Paul) has beaten me to it.


Shane

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've never known Explorer to be in MSConfig | Startup unless
manually placed there by a user to open a specific folder each time
they boot their system. It isn't present in a clean new install
made using Microsoft retail media. The default entries being:
ScanRegistry
TaskMonitor
PCHealth
SystemTray
LoadPowerProfile x2 (do not remove either)
Scheduling Agent
StateMgr
A fully updated system would have had KB891711 and KB918547 added
as a result of installing the hotfixes of the same number.
SSDPPSRV would also be present if the user had chosen to enable
Universal PnP in Windows Setup
Communications.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility
Startup, along with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All others
were not ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also present
in the Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this absence of
Explorer normal (been there for 9 years....}????

Explorer.exe
 

Shane
Tanks for clearing this out. As for your cat, maybe she's in a state of
mutation and growing wings to go back to the pyramids, where she will be
revered and adored. Are you treating her according to her status?? Bye
and have a Merry Holidays.
--
cogito ergo sum


"Shane" wrote:

Well, you're welcome. And I think that's what it was, though I actually was
about to ask that, but you kind of took the sale out of my wind. However, it
seems to me that in msconfig - if that's what you mean, as opposed to some
other utility such as Startup Control panel - what you'd see Explorer.exe in
is System.ini (as indeed you would see it *in* System.ini - as in the line
shell=explorer.exe). Perhaps that's the one you're thinking of?

And perhaps she's being more cryptic and it's about triangles. Possibly -
since they stick up - a reference to pyramids?

Shane

PAT (Paul) wrote:
Mike, tks for reply and to Shane for his sense of humor, I think
thats what it was... Welll I lived nine years with Explorer.exe in
my MSConfig, and last week it disappeared. Yes I have or had:
PCHealth (got rid of it some times ago), LoadPowerProfile x2 and
Scheduling Agent were also removed. As for the two KB, they are
there. The SSDPSRV removed long time ago, and the very few games I
use self start ok. My last question was a "silly" one and I knew
there was another in mind, well thats it. Tks guys.



There I was about to ask if anyone knew semaphore, as my cat seems
to be telling me "ears", or possibly more specifically "2 ears", but
for all I know it might be like a signal beamed into outer space in
the hope of finding alien life and she's actually saying "1 + 1 = 2"!

But I think Pat (Paul) has beaten me to it.


Shane

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've never known Explorer to be in MSConfig | Startup unless
manually placed there by a user to open a specific folder each time
they boot their system. It isn't present in a clean new install
made using Microsoft retail media. The default entries being:
ScanRegistry
TaskMonitor
PCHealth
SystemTray
LoadPowerProfile x2 (do not remove either)
Scheduling Agent
StateMgr
A fully updated system would have had KB891711 and KB918547 added
as a result of installing the hotfixes of the same number.
SSDPPSRV would also be present if the user had chosen to enable
Universal PnP in Windows Setup
Communications.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility
Startup, along with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All others
were not ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also present
in the Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this absence of
Explorer normal (been there for 9 years....}????

Explorer.exe
 

vbg

You may have something there, and I probably am! If her status warrants a
doorman I certainly fill that role!

Best of the season to you, too.

Shane



PAT (Paul) wrote:
Shane
Tanks for clearing this out. As for your cat, maybe she's in a
state of mutation and growing wings to go back to the pyramids, where
she will be revered and adored. Are you treating her according to
her status?? Bye and have a Merry Holidays.

Well, you're welcome. And I think that's what it was, though I
actually was about to ask that, but you kind of took the sale out of
my wind. However, it seems to me that in msconfig - if that's what
you mean, as opposed to some other utility such as Startup Control
panel - what you'd see Explorer.exe in is System.ini (as indeed you
would see it *in* System.ini - as in the line shell=explorer.exe).
Perhaps that's the one you're thinking of?

And perhaps she's being more cryptic and it's about triangles.
Possibly - since they stick up - a reference to pyramids?

Shane

PAT (Paul) wrote:
Mike, tks for reply and to Shane for his sense of humor, I think
thats what it was... Welll I lived nine years with Explorer.exe in
my MSConfig, and last week it disappeared. Yes I have or had:
PCHealth (got rid of it some times ago), LoadPowerProfile x2 and
Scheduling Agent were also removed. As for the two KB, they are
there. The SSDPSRV removed long time ago, and the very few games I
use self start ok. My last question was a "silly" one and I knew
there was another in mind, well thats it. Tks guys.



There I was about to ask if anyone knew semaphore, as my cat seems
to be telling me "ears", or possibly more specifically "2 ears",
but for all I know it might be like a signal beamed into outer
space in the hope of finding alien life and she's actually saying
"1 + 1 = 2"!

But I think Pat (Paul) has beaten me to it.


Shane

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've never known Explorer to be in MSConfig | Startup unless
manually placed there by a user to open a specific folder each
time they boot their system. It isn't present in a clean new
install made using Microsoft retail media. The default entries
being: ScanRegistry
TaskMonitor
PCHealth
SystemTray
LoadPowerProfile x2 (do not remove either)
Scheduling Agent
StateMgr
A fully updated system would have had KB891711 and KB918547 added
as a result of installing the hotfixes of the same number.
SSDPPSRV would also be present if the user had chosen to enable
Universal PnP in Windows Setup
Communications.
--
Mike Maltby



PAT (Paul) wrote:

Explorer.exe was always in my System Configuration Utility
Startup, along with a few others:
SystemTray, StateMgr, ScanRegistry, my Firewall and AV. All
others were not ticked,.
Note that I can open Explorer and ts working ok. Its also
present in the Close Program window with: Alt+Ctrl. Is this
absence of Explorer normal (been there for 9 years....}????