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"Open With..." shortcut pops up on my desktop during startup
The program whose header reads "Open With" pops up on my desktop during startup. I delete it and it keeps coming back. I don't know the name of the program, so I can't find it to "kill" it on startup. This began shortly after I had downloaded several Microsoft "critical updates." Anybody know how to get rid of it? Phil |
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The "Open with..." dialog pops up whenever an attempt is made to open a file that
does not have any program associated with it. If this dialog is popping up during startup, you likely have an item in your startup group that is not pointing to an associated file. Click StartRun, type MSINFO32 and click OK. In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the "Software Environment" category. In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list on the right. Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the right. Press Ctrl-C to copy the list to the 'clipboard'. Open a reply to this message, click in the body of the message and press Ctrl-V to paste the list from the clipboard to the message, and post back to this thread. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Phil James" wrote in message ... The program whose header reads "Open With" pops up on my desktop during startup. I delete it and it keeps coming back. I don't know the name of the program, so I can't find it to "kill" it on startup. This began shortly after I had downloaded several Microsoft "critical updates." Anybody know how to get rid of it? Phil |
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Thanks. I'll try that. Phil "glee" wrote in message ... The "Open with..." dialog pops up whenever an attempt is made to open a file that does not have any program associated with it. If this dialog is popping up during startup, you likely have an item in your startup group that is not pointing to an associated file. Click StartRun, type MSINFO32 and click OK. In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the "Software Environment" category. In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list on the right. Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the right. Press Ctrl-C to copy the list to the 'clipboard'. Open a reply to this message, click in the body of the message and press Ctrl-V to paste the list from the clipboard to the message, and post back to this thread. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Phil James" wrote in message ... The program whose header reads "Open With" pops up on my desktop during startup. I delete it and it keeps coming back. I don't know the name of the program, so I can't find it to "kill" it on startup. This began shortly after I had downloaded several Microsoft "critical updates." Anybody know how to get rid of it? Phil |
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I'll be watching here for you list from msinfo32.
-- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Phil James" wrote in message ... Thanks. I'll try that. Phil "glee" wrote in message ... The "Open with..." dialog pops up whenever an attempt is made to open a file that does not have any program associated with it. If this dialog is popping up during startup, you likely have an item in your startup group that is not pointing to an associated file. Click StartRun, type MSINFO32 and click OK. In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the "Software Environment" category. In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list on the right. Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the right. Press Ctrl-C to copy the list to the 'clipboard'. Open a reply to this message, click in the body of the message and press Ctrl-V to paste the list from the clipboard to the message, and post back to this thread. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Phil James" wrote in message ... The program whose header reads "Open With" pops up on my desktop during startup. I delete it and it keeps coming back. I don't know the name of the program, so I can't find it to "kill" it on startup. This began shortly after I had downloaded several Microsoft "critical updates." Anybody know how to get rid of it? Phil |
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Glee... List is below. Let me know anything you think might be the problem. Also, let me know if there are programs I could safely do without! Phil ***** Microsoft Office Startup Group "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA9.EXE" -b -l Dr Watson Startup Group C:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON.EXE SystemTray Registry (Machine Run) SysTray.Exe TrackPointSrv Registry (Machine Run) daemon.exe LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Run) Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme ScanRegistry Registry (Machine Run) c:\windows\scanregw.exe /autorun PRPCMonitor Registry (Machine Run) PRPCUI.exe ConfigSafe Registry (Machine Run) C:\CFGSAFE\AUTOCHK.EXE IBMUltraBayHotSwapSound Registry (Machine Run) c:\windows\SYSTEM\IBMBAYSN.EXE TaskMonitor Registry (Machine Run) c:\windows\taskmon.exe TpHotkey Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\THINKPAD\UTILIT~1\TPHKMGR.EXE IBMUltraBayHotSwapCPLLoader Registry (Machine Run) c:\windows\SYSTEM\IBMBAY2M.EXE SoundFusion Registry (Machine Run) RunDll32 cwcprops.cpl,CrystalControlWnd Ati2cwxx Registry (Machine Run) Ati2cwxx.exe AtiPTA Registry (Machine Run) Atiptaxx.exe MCAgentExe Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE.COM\AGENT\mcagent.exe MCUpdateExe Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE.COM\AGENT\MCUPDATE.EXE VirusScan Online Registry (Machine Run) "C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE.COM\VSO\mcvsshld.exe" MPTBox Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\CANON\MULTIP~1\MPTBOX.EXE InstantAccess Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\CANONC~1\TEXTBR~1\BIN\INSTAN~1.EXE /h RegisterDropHandler Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\CANONC~1\TEXTBR~1\BIN\REGIST~1.EXE MP_STATUS_MONITOR Registry (Machine Run) "C:\Program Files\Canon\MultiPASS\monitr32.exe" I PDirect Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\THINKPAD\UTILIT~1\PDirect.exe VSOCheckTask Registry (Machine Run) "C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE.COM\VSO\MCMNHDLR.EXE" /checktask QuickTime Task Registry (Machine Run) "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\QTTASK.EXE" -atboottime Zone Labs Client Registry (Machine Run) C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe IrMon Registry (Machine Run) IrMon.exe HP CD-Writer Registry (Machine Run) C:\Program Files\HP CD-Writer\Mmenu\hpcdtray.exe Adaptec DirectCD Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\HPCD-W~1\DIRECTCD\DIRECTCD.EXE CriticalUpdate Registry (Machine Run) c:\windows\SYSTEM\wucrtupd.exe -startup mgavrtclexe Registry (Machine Service) C:\WINDOWS\MCBin\AV\Rt\mgavrte.exe LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Service) Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme ATIPOLAB Registry (Machine Service) ati2plxx.exe IBMPMSVC Registry (Machine Service) IBMPMSVC.EXE -HELPER TrueVector Registry (Machine Service) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ZONELABS\VSMON.EXE -service MiniLog Registry (Machine Service) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ZONELABS\MINILOG.EXE -service RegisterDropHandler Registry (Machine Service) C:\PROGRA~1\CANONC~1\TEXTBR~1\BIN\REGIST~1.EXE SchedulingAgent Registry (Machine Service) mstask.exe McVsRte Registry (Machine Service) C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE.COM\VSO\mcvsrte.exe /embedding KB891711 Registry (Machine Service) c:\windows\SYSTEM\KB891711\KB891711.EXE ***** "glee" wrote in message ... The "Open with..." dialog pops up whenever an attempt is made to open a file that does not have any program associated with it. If this dialog is popping up during startup, you likely have an item in your startup group that is not pointing to an associated file. Click StartRun, type MSINFO32 and click OK. In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the "Software Environment" category. In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list on the right. Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the right. Press Ctrl-C to copy the list to the 'clipboard'. Open a reply to this message, click in the body of the message and press Ctrl-V to paste the list from the clipboard to the message, and post back to this thread. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Phil James" wrote in message ... The program whose header reads "Open With" pops up on my desktop during startup. I delete it and it keeps coming back. I don't know the name of the program, so I can't find it to "kill" it on startup. This began shortly after I had downloaded several Microsoft "critical updates." Anybody know how to get rid of it? Phil |
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Phil,
Please post back with the entire exact text in the "Open with" message you receive. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Phil James" wrote in message ... Glee... List is below. Let me know anything you think might be the problem. Also, let me know if there are programs I could safely do without! snip Phil "glee" wrote in message ... The "Open with..." dialog pops up whenever an attempt is made to open a file that does not have any program associated with it. If this dialog is popping up during startup, you likely have an item in your startup group that is not pointing to an associated file. Click StartRun, type MSINFO32 and click OK. In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the "Software Environment" category. In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list on the right. Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the right. Press Ctrl-C to copy the list to the 'clipboard'. Open a reply to this message, click in the body of the message and press Ctrl-V to paste the list from the clipboard to the message, and post back to this thread. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Phil James" wrote in message ... The program whose header reads "Open With" pops up on my desktop during startup. I delete it and it keeps coming back. I don't know the name of the program, so I can't find it to "kill" it on startup. This began shortly after I had downloaded several Microsoft "critical updates." Anybody know how to get rid of it? Phil |
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