Publisher 2000 automatically running on startup

[Easton College]

There is a single WINNT PC on our network where Publisher 2000 *always* starts up when someone logs on.

There is no trace of a file in the 'startup' of the Start Menu. And I have looked in the Registry entry for

\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CU RRENT_VERSION\RUN

and there appears to be nothing in there that would cause this either.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Lowland]

Have you looked in all the User Profile start menu start up folders? If not, do a Find File for *pub.exe and see where they are

Good luck!

[Easton College]

thanks for the suggestion, but no luck there unfortunately. i should add that the message "Publisher cannot open file" comes up too, which would suggest it is trying to open a specific publisher file which doesn't exist any more. just a case of finding what is triggering it i suppose!!!

[Drone2903]

Delete all temp files.

I had a similar probl with Word.
Turned out it was still trying to open a file
someone had received by mail.
Go figure....

Keep us posted.

[Easton College]

ok! will give that a go this afternoon. thanks!

[Easton College]

well, the temp directory is empty and it's still happening. argh!

[Lowland]

Then delete everything out of all the Recent folders too. It's probable a file was not shut down properly, on a network share or floppy drive, and has caused a glitch

If that don't work, do a search on all drives for *.pub and delete any you don't need (like duplicates in Profiles).

Good luck!

[Sol]

If that doesn't work, blow away the local profiles. I've had instances where that fixed the weirdest things.

[DPW]

I would also try these keys in the registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServicesOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunServicesOnce

[Easton College]

i've whacked all the profiles already, but i'll give those other registry entries a check - thanks DPW!

[Easton College]

nope, no dice on the registry. was one weird entry that shouldn't have been there but otherwise all was as it should be. i must be missing something obvious!

[Easton College]

busted! bit of a long winded solution, but i uninstalled publisher, and logged in again - it seemed as though it was attempting load a .TMP file (though it didn't say where from), so i went out and cleared all the remaining references to MSPUB from the registry. obviously TMP files had somehow become associated with publisher. logged in again and it was referring to a file INS5.TMP or something similar, which i again found in the registry, deleted, et voila.

one PC that now starts up cleanly again.

thanks for all the suggestions folks! seems to be that a mixture of all the ideas helped solve it.