If the file is removed, but the shortcut is still there, a folder may automatically open.įortunately, there are fairly easy ways to remove this. Place something in the Start -> All Programs -> Startup folder, and every time you log in that shortcut will try to execute. It’s possible that that you accidentally put a shortcut in the wrong place in your Start menu. For now, let’s assume that this is completely benign, so we can explore the other ways that this can happen. Unfortunately, I can’t say definitively that’s what’s going on here. The folder doesn’t really have an unusual path, but I can’t say for sure. This sounds very similar to automatic start entries left behind by malware that was incompletely removed (which seems unlikely in this case) or a program that was removed without cleaning up after itself properly.

Let’s talk about what it might be and what you can do to fix it. It’s not something that was installed, so there’s nothing to uninstall.īut this is interesting. If it’s just a folder in Windows Explorer opening when you log in, that’s not a program, so you’re not going to find it in the Control Panel.