M
M Skabialka
I reformatted an older PC and set it up with Windows XP Pro. I added an
external Zip drive, Office XP, and network printers. Everything worked
great.
Then I decided to hook up the old scanner. I had to use the Win 98 program,
then upgrade to Win 2000 and Win XP versions, as per the HP web site. It's
a HP Scanjet 5100C. It seems to scan OK - this isn't the problem.
The problem is that ever since I installed the scanner, every time the
machine boots and anyone logs on, it opens an Explorer window into the
C:\Windows\System32 folder. This has to be closed of course since I have it
set up to not show system or hidden files, so the window doesn't show any
files anyway. Besides, it's annoying to always have to close this before
anything else can be done.
I looked in the Start Menu and it isn't started there. I looked in the
registry for "C:\Windows\System32" but there are thousands of entries.
How can I find out what makes this window open, and then make that go away?
Nothing has been added since the scanner was added.
Incidentally, this also happened when the machine was set up in Windows
2000, but I hadn't realized it started when the scanner was added.
Thanks,
Mich
external Zip drive, Office XP, and network printers. Everything worked
great.
Then I decided to hook up the old scanner. I had to use the Win 98 program,
then upgrade to Win 2000 and Win XP versions, as per the HP web site. It's
a HP Scanjet 5100C. It seems to scan OK - this isn't the problem.
The problem is that ever since I installed the scanner, every time the
machine boots and anyone logs on, it opens an Explorer window into the
C:\Windows\System32 folder. This has to be closed of course since I have it
set up to not show system or hidden files, so the window doesn't show any
files anyway. Besides, it's annoying to always have to close this before
anything else can be done.
I looked in the Start Menu and it isn't started there. I looked in the
registry for "C:\Windows\System32" but there are thousands of entries.
How can I find out what makes this window open, and then make that go away?
Nothing has been added since the scanner was added.
Incidentally, this also happened when the machine was set up in Windows
2000, but I hadn't realized it started when the scanner was added.
Thanks,
Mich