IE keeps coming up on start up.

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May 6 2005, 1:23 pm
Just recently I've been getting IE opening on a About:Blank page on start up, is there a way to disable IE all together(Which I dought, unless some hard core editing) or is there away to disable IE on start up?
May 6 2005, 1:34 pm
If you mean when windows starts up, you can check and remove stuff from the Windows startup in the registry.

Start->Run->regedit
The registry keys where Windows keeps the startup info are the following:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Run]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Run]
May 6 2005, 1:47 pm
Unfortunately IE can't just be dropped cold from Windows. Many of folder browsing is actually integrated with IE.
May 6 2005, 10:06 pm
In response to Repiv
Also check out the msconfig program, which is a convenient way of disabling programs on startup. (Start->Run->msconfig.)

I'd also scan for spyware, just in case something else is starting it up for some odd reason. Something I do periodically is look through all the programs that start on startup and find out what they do. If I find something suspicious I research it and see if it's evil or not.