Hello, got a winXP box who just

[jutetrea]

Hello,

got a winXP box who just had its domain changed... meaning its main profile changed as well, from \user to
\user.domain. We had to copy all the files to the new profile. Everything works great, except we have two notepad files starting up at boot; whitelist.txt and filters.txt. They get placed in the startup folders, but removing them from the startup as well as removing them from the registry don't seem to help.

Is this possibly a function of XP's internal firewall?

the user also has ihatespam and ihatepopups installed.

Any thoughts?

 

[PadawanJoey]

You might want to try the win.ini file. Also, try running Adware (

http://www.lavasoft.com)

it might find and delete it for you. Just some ideas.

-Joey

 

[bcastner]

A "whitelist" is a pretty standard pop-up stopper feature; it allows the user to specify web sites where pop-ups are permitted. The files are decidedly not from the Windows firewall, more likely from the Pop-Up stopper and less likely but possible from the Spam Filter.

This MS KB may help find the reason for this behavior:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;170086

I find it helpful to show on the screen or save to a .txt file the run key settings to find problems like this. This little freeware utility is very useful in situations like this:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_starttrack.htm

What you are looking for is a Run key that has the filenames you specified, and likely some junk linke "" afterwards.

 

[Cooker]

Go to start then run, type msconfig, then enter. From there you can do selective starts, by turning off just about anything that is on your computer. You can also restart it if it isn't the one you want to turn off.