System32 Folder opens whenever booting up

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Greetings,

I've developed a problem: every time I start up my system, the System32
folder is open on the desktop.

I've looked through the Microsoft troubleshooting database and found an
appropriate article (170086), but I find the instructions vague for my level
of expertise. I've looked through the two registry keys referenced in the
article (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) and I could
find none that had quotation mark probably. I did find an entry that looked
suspicious:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Name: (DEFAULT)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: (value not set)

This was the very first entry at the top of the list.

Does this look like the culprit? If so, can the whole entry be safely
deleted? If not, is there another fix for the problem?

Many thanks!
Josh