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pebe Posted - Jan 27 2012 : 6:19:46 PM
Recently I had to do a reinstall of XP Pro on my laptop.

Now, when I first switch on it comes up with the desktop, but a few seconds later that changes to 'My Documents'.

How can I stop it changing?
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pebe Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 2:40:38 PM
Thanks, that's fixed it.
Aaron Cake Posted - Jan 28 2012 : 10:34:18 AM
It's pretty common problem with the "userinit" registry key pointing to something that doesn't exist.

I was lazy so I Googled for someone else's instructions:

quote:

The answer is a corrupted registry entry.

Run regedit and navigate to:

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon

In there there should be a value (on right hand side of screen) called Userinit.

The data for this value is probably something similar to:

C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,

If you do see a duplicated string in there similar to the above - simply double click on the Userinit value and edit the data so as to delete everything to the right of the first comma (,). In the case above you would leave only:

C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,

Exit registry edit and reboot. No more My Documents!



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