Excel and Word Opens a New Doc on Startup

[Mandrake Nightshade]

I want to stop these programs from running on start up I went to the startup folder and they are not there.

Order of events.
1 Reboot
2 Log in
3 Excel 7.0a opens a new worksheet
4 Word 97 opens new document

Winword.exe and excel.exe is not in the startup folder.


Help Please.

 

[jbcalg]

look in msconfig to see if they start at start up, the 'startup' folder may have very little that starts up

go to:
start
run
msconfig
startup
look at all those programs that start at startup, uncheck word and excel references
reboot

 

[Mandrake Nightshade]

Does not have MSCONFIG.

 

[Gram123]

Mandrake - when I needed msconfig (or similar) for WinNT 4.0, Mulder pointed me here:

http://www.delphifreestuff.com/

Go to the Freeware link on the left and locate and download "Startup Manager".

Worked for me!

Gram

 

[jbcalg]

aha, so sorry
didn't know it was W95

see if one of the 3rd party softwares can help as Gram suggests

 

[TonyKlein]

Or just take a look in Regedit:

You need to check the following keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion/Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Click on the Run and RunServices subkeys in succession, and take a look in the right pane. See whether there's anything there that could explain this.

Good luck,

 

[Mandrake Nightshade]

That worked.



Thank you very much!

Mandrake