Thanks Jim. Looked, but no blanks, no joy. Got plan "B"? Mark . wrote: > Suddenly, one day, without me doing anything (yeah, right, but I sure > don't recall doing anything) on boot, I get an explorer window open to > one of the Norton directories. (I know, I know) > > So, I have looked in all the normal startup places, used startup cop, > and even downloaded autorun from sysinternals, but cannot find where the > darn thing is starting from. > > Anyone had this happen, and have a solution? > > OS W2K, Norton Systemworks 2001 > > Mark Look for an entry that does not have a value (blank entry in right pane)on your hklm/software/Microsoft/Windows/current version/Run key Delete it. Regards, Jim Kenzig