How do I boot to Desktop?

[Wee]

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Suddenly my XP PRO is booting up to Windows Explorer showing the My
Documents folder. It used to boot up to the desktop screen (icons).

What happened? How do I reset this?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

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Hi

Please try the following link to Kelly's web page:

Line 255 - right hand side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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Will Denny
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<wee@willy.com> wrote in message
news:td1ui0hep9ot5c7onh871ou7rp3sba11f3@4ax.com...
> Suddenly my XP PRO is booting up to Windows Explorer showing the My
> Documents folder. It used to boot up to the desktop screen (icons).
>
> What happened? How do I reset this?
>
> Thanks

 

[Wee]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:11:24 +0100, "Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Hi
>
>Please try the following link to Kelly's web page:
>
>Line 255 - right hand side
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm


OK

I will

How do these things happen? Mind of its own?

Thanks

 

[Wee]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:11:24 +0100, "Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Hi
>
>Please try the following link to Kelly's web page:
>
>Line 255 - right hand side
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm


I did. Found two registry changes to consider:

-----------------------(1)-----------------------------

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Userinit"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\userinit.exe,"

Strangely enough my entry was:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe;C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe"
I made it:
"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\userinit.exe"

---------------------------(2)-----------------------------------------

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000000

I did not have this registry entry that I could find anyway.

=========================================================

I rebooted and problem was gone!

Thanks