This doesn't sound possible, but....

Any chance that you're starting up different instances of excel and by chance
you're dismissing the prompt that tells you that personal.xls is in use, do you
want to open it readonly (instead of answering to open it readonly)????

And how are you starting up excel? Just clicking on an excel icon or a workbook
or through some other mechanized routine?

Can you keep track of how you start excel and when personal.xls doesn't appear
to see if you can see a pattern?

(and you did double check that disabled items list, right?)

Yeah, I don't have any good guesses....

Zurn wrote:

Done, but everything OK in folder, I have the same StartupPath, and
files are in it...

PERSONAL.XLS is in correct folder but not starting up.

Very strange, and I don't have this when I restart Windows. Then when
using Excel several times, at different moments I get the problem... I
searched forums, but no topics found.

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