"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
...
| I don't think you screwed anything up, and there might not be anything to
| fix.
|
| The lines that are executed during startup are displayed to the screen,
but
| very often the startup procedure doesn't pause long enough for them to be
| noticed. I can't work out what these lines might be doing, but I don't
| think it's associated with a problem with the temp folder. It's probably
| just that some change in the startup procedure means that they are now
| visible, whereas previously they were hidden.
|
| You can check your current configuration. Not that it's unlikely that
these
| changes will be needed, as there's no indication that you have altered
| anything that affects startup.
|
| Do Start / Run and enter MSConfig and choose OK. There should be a line
in
| autoexec such as
| Set Temp=C:\Windows\Temp
|
| Many systems will also have
| Set Tmp=C:\Windows\Temp
|
| since some programmers get confused between Temp and Tmp. If it's not
there,
| there's no harm in adding it (New button). Save the changes and exit.
Exit
| the command window.
|
| Then, from within Explorer, look for the folder C:\Windows\Temp. If it's
| not there, create it.
|
| You don't need to look for any files in DOS. You just need to check that
the
| Temp folder is still there.
|
| Unless, of course, you are having other problems which indicate that
startup
| isn't completing correctly.
|
| Or, perhaps you are referring to something you changed in the Temporary
| Internet Folders settings. These are fixed from within Internet Explorer
at
| the Tools / Internet Options / Temporary Internet files / Settings dialog.
| --
| Jeff Richards
| MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
| "Thomas Callaghan" wrote in message
| ...

This can be added as the first line, if not found in the autoexec.bat, to
suppress most of the output when it runs:

@ECHO OFF

Might want to check if there is an autoexec.bak or other [like .dos] saved
file for comparison

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