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....}????