Re: Shell application is started twice

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Anders,

My reseach showed that FBA will put itself into the Usetinit key if you are using NOT Explorer shell.

Seems like this behaviour has been corrected in SP2.

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Regards,
KM


> Hi
>
> We has registered a minor problem with some of our XPE based product. On 5 out of approx. 100 products our shell application is
> started twice, when booting the system. We have tried replacing the application with eg. notepad, but the problem consists.
>
>
> We have localized the problem to be the registry entry:
>
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit
>
> which contains "c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,c:\windows\fba\fba.exe -run". When we removed the ",c:\windows\fba\fba.exe -run"
> part on the line, all works fine.
>
> By searching the internet I can se that other people has the same problem - eg on the site
> "http://www.mcse.ms/archive230-2004-9-1065631.html";.
>
>
>
> My Question is:
>
> Does anyone know what causes the UserInit entry in registry to get this value. Some thing must have gone wrong running the last
> part of FBA (unpacking the image on the target platform).
>
>
>
> We using XPE SP1 at the moment and the same XPE image on all systems.
>
>
>
> best regards
>
> Anders Olsen
>


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