explorer won't open on boot

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You don't have to worry about run paramaters with Startup Manager. It is intuitive. Add the application and select the target file via the browse function.

I just did and it put it in the user's startup folder. Now I know that's not right.

*edit - I put it in REG user RUN because other system32 applications were run there and Machine RUN applications are started by Explorer.

*edit - well that didn't work. so I'll try win.ini [load]

*edit - that's not working. I'll put it in Startup folder common since my desktop.ini file is there and it's starts immediately. .

*edit - nope. Not working. That gives me a My documents folder only after I start explorer.exe manually. I guess this isn't going to work. When I boot - after I sign in, I get 38 processes running and just my wallpaper on my desk (my icons are normally hidden). I then have to start explorer for the rest of my applications to open and get a taskbar.