hello again friends,
i had a tonne of trojans and viruses on my laptop a few weeks ago, i managed to deleted them all (with virus scanner). some of them had registry startup entries, avg deleted those as well (or at least the ones it/i know about). but every time i boot xp it tells me that it cant find iexplorer.exe in sys32 folder (that was a fake virus file and it wasnt IE7 .exe lol so it's all fine). avg said it deleted everything to do with the files, including registry entries. but i don't know how the computer can still demand to open iexplorer.exe. i've checked the registry with registry scanner, with avg scan, with what's running 2.2, with msconfig, and there is no sign of this bloody iexplorer anywhere. i know it isn't much of a problem, but it is just weird and i thought i should share it with you guys&gals.



Led

Go to Start>Run & type msconfig, hit enter and click the startup tab, see if anything there refers to this file & deselect it.
You can also change startup programs with CCleaner, CCleaner - Home

lol, i did that with about 4 programs, but im downloading ccleaner right now, so might have some success

Good luck, I like CCleaner because it shows all startup entries from various places like the Startup folder and registry, not just one or the other
After you've run it, click on "Tools" and then "Startup" by the way

well i've just deleted all of the missing rubbish from registry (& backed up, just incase pc goes crazy on next boot). thanks for telling me about this ccleaner, it's quite useful.

No prob
Please let me know if it still occurs next time you reboot