I recently ran into a really frustrating issue on my Windows seven 64-bit PC: whenever I restart it and booted into Windows, the Windows Explorer Libraries windows would pop up. It never happened before and I could not determine any particular application or upgrade that I had install that would cause it to begin occurring.
Anyway, after playing around and doing some research, I was able to fix the issue. In this post, I’ll explain to you a number of techniques to hopefully take care of the issue.
1 – Check up Folder:
If the Explorer Libraries directory is pooping up on every boot up, then the first position you want to evaluate is the startup directory. Go to Start, All Programs and click Startup. If there is a quick way to the Libraries directory, go forward and eliminate it.
2 – Userinit Computer Registry Key:
The second way is to evaluate the registry for a particular key and modify it to a different value. First, start the registry editor by clicking Start and entering regedit. Then look at the following key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
Find the Userinit key and substitute the value with the following:
C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe,
Now go ahead and restart your computer and see what happens. Hopefully, you should not have the Windows Explorer screen started out to the Collections directory pop up.
3 – Shell Computer registry Key:
In the same position that you have Userinit above, there is another key known as Shell. Create sure that is set to only explorer.exe and nothing else.
4 – Restore Previous Folders:
Windows Explorer has this choice known as Restore Previous Folders, which will do exactly that when you logon. You can turn off it by starting Explorer, Organize and then Folder and Search Options.
Make sure that Restore Previous Folders windows at logon is not examined.
5 – Delete Computer registry Key:
For some customers, if you have Internet Explorer v5 installed (for some insane reason), then you have to remove a key in the registry. Get around to:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Go ahead and delete the DesktopProcess value from the registry key.
6 – Acer SmartStart:
Some Acer pcs have an frustrating application known as SmartStart that will take anything you start after running Windows and have it begin instantly when you sign in. You can either remove the system or start it and set or remove the programs you want to have at startup.If you are still having this issue, post a comment here with the facts and we’ll try to help.