Check this out.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307856
Paul

"pineywood" <pineywood@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Each time Windows Exploer is launched the Document folder is expanded.
> How
> do I keep this from happening so that Documents folder remains closed just
> as
> all other folders do?