notepad message after logging on.

macattack · February 18th, 2009, 11:28 PM

I hope you can assist in a problem im having, when i log on and the desktop loads up i get a notepad message, "the filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect." I have tried system restore without any luck. Im running vista home premium sp1. I hope you can help in finding a solution to this problem please.i only have four programs in start up and none of them are the culprit, i think its a bit more technical than that, ive done several scans (norton 2009, spyware doctor, malwarebytes, a-squared and spybot s&d ). so i dont know, maybe a corrupt registry entry of some sort, (ive also ran a scan with regcure)..?? hoping someone had come across this sort of thing and knew a fix for it..!

**Regeneration** · February 18th, 2009, 11:30 PM

You can use "Msconfig" to find out which startup item gives this message.

macattack · February 18th, 2009, 11:59 PM

which tool in msconfig would be best to use.? reliability & performance monitor or another one..? it would help if i knew what i need to look at when i do.. if that makes any sense..! so can you please give me some guidance.

**Regeneration** · February 19th, 2009, 12:00 AM

Startup bar

macattack · February 19th, 2009, 12:15 AM

i have four startup items they are as follows... hpsysdrv application, raid event monitor, lxcfcats, istray.

**Regeneration** · February 19th, 2009, 12:18 AM

Disable them one by one until the error msg is gone.

macattack · February 19th, 2009, 12:24 AM

okay i,ll try that now then thanks, ill post a reply soon when ive done it.

macattack · February 19th, 2009, 01:15 AM

i disabled them one by one and rebooted and logged on each time but i still get same message.. i think the problem started a couple of days ago, i know there was a problem with batch files.

macattack · February 21st, 2009, 05:22 PM

Managed to sort it out, my user account had become corrupted so i opened a new user account and transfered my files and settings using "windows easy transfer" utility, been using the new account with no problems for past few days to make sure everything was ok then deleted the old user account.

squall_leonhart · May 30th, 2009, 01:27 AM

this could have beeen fixed usind startup.cpl