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Help! My Documents opens at Startup

truescot · 2011-06-07 16:38:23

HI techies, need a wee hand When I boot up my PC, My Documents automatically opens after the Desktop icons appear. How do I get rid of this? And also, I am running Avast! and every so often it tells me something like "found malicious software - rootkit" (or something). It advises me to delete, so I press ok, then it…

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truescot Posts: 197 Forumite

21 June 2011 at 7:42PM

Dave_C wrote: »

If you Google Help! My Documents opens at Startup the first result is Microsoft KB 555294, which should solve your problem

Dave

Thanks Dave, for some reason my searching had not unearthed this result, but it seems to have solved my problem with about 2 minutes of my time!

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