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Old December 9th 04, 11:35 PM
John W. Wells
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Default Explorer displays c:\...\Common\Bin at boot-up

DSL has just reached my neighborhood (oh joy!) and somewhere during
the installation futzing a couple things have changed.

At start-up, Windows Explorer now opens two windows. One displays:

c:\Program Files\Common\Bin

and the other displays:

c:\Windows\System32

When I first purchased this computer a year ago (a Dimension XPS
running Win XP SP1) the "System32" popped up, too, and unchecking
"/L:ENG" in MSCONFIG eliminated it. And it does so now.

But can anyone advise me on ridding myself of the "Bin" window?

--John W. Wells
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Old December 10th 04, 02:41 AM
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"John W. Wells" wrote in message
...
DSL has just reached my neighborhood (oh joy!) and somewhere during
the installation futzing a couple things have changed.

At start-up, Windows Explorer now opens two windows. One displays:

c:\Program Files\Common\Bin

and the other displays:

c:\Windows\System32

When I first purchased this computer a year ago (a Dimension XPS
running Win XP SP1) the "System32" popped up, too, and unchecking
"/L:ENG" in MSCONFIG eliminated it. And it does so now.

But can anyone advise me on ridding myself of the "Bin" window?


Most nonsense can be cleaned out of the registry editor, something like:
hkey local machine
software
microsoft
windows
current version
run -- all kinds of crap to be found in here that can be deleted, but also
be careful not to disturb your antivirus or keyboard files (if you use fancy
keyboards or wireless gadgets).



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Old December 10th 04, 05:12 AM
Jim
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John --

I don't know if this will help or not, but the latest version of Spybot
Search & Destroy, under tools -- startup, lists "all programs that
will be started along with Windows if you power on your system. It also
shows the reason each one starts, and has a little "check mark" in a
check box next to each one. If you remove the check mark, the
associated program won't start when you reboot. -- Just something to
mess around with.

Jim

John W. Wells wrote:
DSL has just reached my neighborhood (oh joy!) and somewhere during
the installation futzing a couple things have changed.

At start-up, Windows Explorer now opens two windows. One displays:

c:\Program Files\Common\Bin

and the other displays:

c:\Windows\System32

When I first purchased this computer a year ago (a Dimension XPS
running Win XP SP1) the "System32" popped up, too, and unchecking
"/L:ENG" in MSCONFIG eliminated it. And it does so now.

But can anyone advise me on ridding myself of the "Bin" window?

--John W. Wells

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Old December 11th 04, 08:14 PM
John W. Wells
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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:12:39 -0700, Jim wrote:

John --

I don't know if this will help or not, but the latest version of Spybot
Search & Destroy, under tools -- startup, lists "all programs that
will be started along with Windows if you power on your system. It also
shows the reason each one starts, and has a little "check mark" in a
check box next to each one. If you remove the check mark, the
associated program won't start when you reboot. -- Just something to
mess around with.


Thanks for the pointer--just recently installed Spybot S&D and hadn't
noticed that feature. But it didn't list Explorer (perhaps since it's
such a basic component of Windows).

--John W. Wells
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Old December 11th 04, 08:17 PM
John W. Wells
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:41:38 -0600, "personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk"
wrote:

"John W. Wells" wrote in message
.. .
DSL has just reached my neighborhood (oh joy!) and somewhere during
the installation futzing a couple things have changed.

At start-up, Windows Explorer now opens two windows. One displays:

c:\Program Files\Common\Bin

and the other displays:

c:\Windows\System32

When I first purchased this computer a year ago (a Dimension XPS
running Win XP SP1) the "System32" popped up, too, and unchecking
"/L:ENG" in MSCONFIG eliminated it. And it does so now.

But can anyone advise me on ridding myself of the "Bin" window?


Most nonsense can be cleaned out of the registry editor, something like:
hkey local machine
software
microsoft
windows
current version
run -- all kinds of crap to be found in here that can be deleted, but also
be careful not to disturb your antivirus or keyboard files (if you use fancy
keyboards or wireless gadgets).


I'll take a look, but I'm not too confident about messing around in
there! Thanks.

--JWW
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Old December 13th 04, 12:18 AM
Key Bored
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Here's one possible solution: Check the properties for the icon that opens
Windows Explorer. Click on Start/All Programs/Accessories. Right-click on
Windows Explorer and select Properties/Shortcut. In the "target" box, it
probably points to the Bin folder that you mention. I prefer to have
Windows Explorer open in the C: drive. To do this, type the following in
the target box:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, C:\

Ensure that you insert the spaces properly in the above string. There is a
space between explorer.exe and /e, and also between the comma and C:\. If
you want it to open in a specific folder, such as Program Files, insert the
following:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, C:\Program Files

If you have desktop shortcuts to Windows Explorer, change these also. Hope
this helps.

Goodluck,
Key Bored


"John W. Wells" wrote in message
...
DSL has just reached my neighborhood (oh joy!) and somewhere during
the installation futzing a couple things have changed.

At start-up, Windows Explorer now opens two windows. One displays:

c:\Program Files\Common\Bin

and the other displays:

c:\Windows\System32

When I first purchased this computer a year ago (a Dimension XPS
running Win XP SP1) the "System32" popped up, too, and unchecking
"/L:ENG" in MSCONFIG eliminated it. And it does so now.

But can anyone advise me on ridding myself of the "Bin" window?

--John W. Wells



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Old December 14th 04, 08:37 AM
personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk
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"John W. Wells" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:41:38 -0600, "personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk"
wrote:

"John W. Wells" wrote in message
. ..
DSL has just reached my neighborhood (oh joy!) and somewhere during
the installation futzing a couple things have changed.

At start-up, Windows Explorer now opens two windows. One displays:

c:\Program Files\Common\Bin

and the other displays:

c:\Windows\System32

When I first purchased this computer a year ago (a Dimension XPS
running Win XP SP1) the "System32" popped up, too, and unchecking
"/L:ENG" in MSCONFIG eliminated it. And it does so now.

But can anyone advise me on ridding myself of the "Bin" window?


Most nonsense can be cleaned out of the registry editor, something like:
hkey local machine
software
microsoft
windows
current version
run -- all kinds of crap to be found in here that can be deleted, but also
be careful not to disturb your antivirus or keyboard files (if you use
fancy
keyboards or wireless gadgets).


I'll take a look, but I'm not too confident about messing around in
there! Thanks.


Just keep from deleting things pertaining to "symantec" (Norton) or whomever
your antivirus vendor may be.



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Old December 21st 04, 03:04 AM
John W. Wells
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:18:59 -0800, "Key Bored"
wrote:

Here's one possible solution: Check the properties for the icon that opens
Windows Explorer. Click on Start/All Programs/Accessories. Right-click on
Windows Explorer and select Properties/Shortcut. In the "target" box, it
probably points to the Bin folder that you mention.


Nope! (That opening with Bin just cropped up recently--never used to
happen)

I prefer to have
Windows Explorer open in the C: drive. To do this, type the following in
the target box:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, C:\


Ahh, that doesn't solve my problem, but is something I didn't know and
solves one of Explorer XP's minor annoyances--opening to My Documents!

Thanks!

--John W. Wells
 




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