By the Startup folder, do you mean any folder listed under Startup in Tools/
Options/ General, or do you mean the XLSTART folder? Have you looked at
both?

If you have had spyware running in your machine, it would be wise to ensure
that it is cleaned off with a reputable anti-spyware program, but I doubt
whether spyware has caused your symptoms.
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David Biddulph

"guraqte" wrote in message
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Hello I am new to this forum. I did try to search for my problem prior
to posting, but did not find anything. I am having a major issue on
one of the computers in my company. A co-workers excel 2003 opens and
starts opening a whole bunch of files automatically, most of which are
not even .xls format. There is nothing listed in the Startup folder
for excel. I don't know what is causing this to happen. I have run
some spyware on computer as well, but nothing appears. Sometimes the
error "excel experienced a serious error the last time the add-in
FILENAME was opened would you like to disable" appears. Upon opening
excel in safe mode there are no add-ins selected to start. Also trying
to disable autorecover files in safe mode does not work. Does anyone
have any other ideas? I did try un-installing, and re-installing excel
2003, then also tried un-installing, re-installing office 2003. Neither
worked.




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guraqte