When I reboot my Win2K Pro desktop each morning, everything loads fine, except the C:\WINNT\system32 folder is diplayed on the desktop.  No error msgs, nothing out of the ordinary, don't know why.  I run a nightly differential backup, with a normal each month.  I have not made any "known" system or application changes.  It really affects nothing, just puzzeling.  Any ideas??

   I assume that what you mean by "C:\WINNT\system32 folder is diplayed on the desktop" is that Windows Explorer is open with the system32 folder in it.
   I would look in the startup items to see what is causing that.   Either use Speed Startup to see the startup items or go to Start (in Windows) then to Run.  Type msconfig in the textbox and then click on the OK button.  This will start the System Configuration Utility.  Go to the Startup tab and the startup items will be listed there.
   One of startup items should be what is displaying that folder on the desktop.