Explorer opens on start-up

The number-one cause is a failed attempt to run a program whose path is incorrectly written.

An extra space is favourite – Windows reads the path up to that point and can’t proceed. Since the path so far specifies a folder, Explorer is opened.

Use the System Configuration Utility (Msconfig.exe) to find the bad entry. You could just disable it, but it’s better to find where it lives and correct the problem there.

Programs can be started from: System.ini, Win.ini, several places in the registry and from the StartUp folder (under Start / Programs).

If you need to search the registry, run Regedit and go to Edit / Find. Type the entry as it appears in SCU. Once found in a Run or RunOnce key, double-click the entry and correct it.

Close Regedit afterwards.

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