Openme.exe??!?! *Resolved*

[Emo]

This is proabaly the most annoying thing that I have on my pc righ tnow.. when I start my pc, and I click on a person to log in (in xp) where its says "loading personal settings" it says there for about 3-4 min!!! and then all fo the sudden everything is loaded up on my desktop and a erro message tells me that it couldnt open "openme.exe" and I should search for it... I checked EVERYWHERE for an automatic start up for suck a file but I dont see it anywhere...

any ideas???

-Emo

[VirtuallyVB]

Please post a list of "everywhere".

I can only think of the StartUp folder and Runx keys in the registry.

[mendhak]

Even msconfig.exe doesn't show it?

[Emo]

well what do you know...

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread....615/qid/246100

I'll post in a sec to tell you if it works!

-Emo

[Rick Bull]

I think I read something about this in a PC mag a while back. The article said it boiled down to a network hub, or something to do with the Internet. I'll try to find it (if I'm not feeling to lazy ).

[Emo]

Fianlly got rid of it.. the problem was hidden inside the registry!

if anybody has the same problem just do this:

Go to Start then Run

Run the program "regedit"

Search the registry for "openme.exe"

It should find it in a line of the registry which says "explorer.exe openme.exe"

Just edit that line to say only "explorer.exe"

Done!
-Emo

[VirtuallyVB]

I would like to know the name of the key.

[Emo]

Originally posted by VirtuallyVB
I would like to know the name of the key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

the key is called "Shell" and it should only say Explorer.exe

-Emo

[VirtuallyVB]

I'll say this much:

I was surprised to find a Windows NT key on my Windows 98 installation.

Thanks for listing the key.