In news:677A3395-AE40-448D-B040-200955E8C939@microsoft.com,
Taneth <Taneth@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I recently reorganised my start menu. I had to move everything from
> my user account to all users so it would all be visible in the one
> folder. Strangely though, everything in the Startup folder was being
> opened twice when the computer was turned on, then started
> complaining that it wasn't working right because there was a previous
> instance open. So I moved the startup folder from All Users to my
> account. It refused to cut and paste because it was a system folder
> and just did a copy. So now there are two startup folders with the
> same items. So I delete the contents of the All Users one,
> effectively moving the shortcuts to my account. Next time I start up
> the computer, though, none of these items are opened. I have to open
> them manually. So I move them back to All Users, because then at
> least they'd be opened automatically. I don't see why, but for some
> reason any shortcut in the All Users startup folder is still being
> opened twice on startup.
> I am using Windows XP SP2.
> How do I force this to open the startup folder only once like it used
> to, short of creating an exe that runs from the registry on a folder
> the OS normally doesn't touch?

You can TRY to remove the double entries:

Pesky Startup Apps:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/startupapps.html

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