"Setting Up Personalized Settings" Message at Every Boot

ID: Q236436

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01, 4.01 Service Pack 1, 4.01 Service Pack 2, 5 for Windows NT 4.0

SYMPTOMS

You may receive the following message each time you start your computer:

Setting up Personalized settings

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if you have Internet Explorer installed and the network is set up to use mandatory user profiles that are not configured with Internet Explorer personalized settings.

RESOLUTION

WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys and Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

To work around this behavior, create a new mandatory user profile that includes Internet Explorer personalized settings, or change the BrowserWebCheck data value to a null value.

For information about creating mandatory profiles, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q168476 How to Create Mandatory Profiles with Windows NT 4.0

To change the setting in the registry, delete the Loadwc.exe value data from the BrowserWebCheck value in the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

For additional information about Loadwc.exe, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q176960 Description of the Loadwc.exe File in Internet Explorer

MORE INFORMATION

Each time Internet Explorer starts, it checks to see if Internet Explorer personalized settings are installed. When the settings are not present, it attempts to create these settings. However, mandatory user profiles do not allow you to save user profile settings, so this process is repeated every time your computer restarts.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv msient
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,4.01,4.01 Service Pack 1,4.01 Service Pack 2,5
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb