Notepad open on startup

carrotmuseum said:

Do you know if it is possible to take the desktop.ini file from my laptop and use it on the problem pc?

Sorry. I don't have answer for that.

carrotmuseum said:

Ok thanks - the ownership details did not work for me. Will try again tomorrow. Brain hurts today with this. Spent more time prattling round with Win 10 than any other Win o/s since 3.1!
Do you know if it is possible to take the desktop.ini file from my laptop and use it on the problem pc?

From this I assume that you have confirmed that one of those hidden .ini files triggers the Notepad error you are seeing. I don't think you can copy from another PC- you will need to delete the offending file. When you feel like having another go at this try option 2 or 3 in the following tutorial to take ownership of the file so that you can delete it:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html