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....}????