After turning on my computer(xp home edition) the admin tools window is
displayed on the screen. How can I keep this from occuring. I've tried to
customize the start menu. BUT IT DOESN'T HELP!! Any ideas would be
appreciated.

Hi Janis,

Could you please export and post the contents of these keys in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run

To do this, start/run regedit, expand the branches to each key (do this one
at a time). Click on the key, then on file/export. Give it any name, then
save to the desktop. Once you have saved both keys, close the registry
editor. Right-click one of the saved files on the desktop, choose edit, it
should open in notepad. Click edit/select all/edit/copy. Open a response to
this post and click in the message text area. Hit ctrl+v to paste the
contents. Repeat for the other saved key, then send the post for
examination.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"janis" <janis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After turning on my computer(xp home edition) the admin tools window is
> displayed on the screen. How can I keep this from occuring. I've tried to
> customize the start menu. BUT IT DOESN'T HELP!! Any ideas would be
> appreciated.