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.


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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....}????