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.