Can't find Squares at start up

When I start up, I get a can't find and instead of a file, it has some squares. I look in start up (msconfig) and I do have 4-5 things listed with squares. What is squares all about? Thank you,
Chris

 

Chris--Some ideas here
http://www.mcse.ms/archive70-2004-4-622451.html
http://www.google.com/search?source...LD,GGLD:2004-31,GGLD:en&q=squares+in+msconfig

 

I checked in start up (Start, Run, msconfig, start up) and found 4 things with squares. Two with, "HKCU\SOFTWARE\microsoft NT\current Version\windows:RUN" And another two with the same but at the end it says, ":Load" instead of RUN.
Does this add any insite to what I need to make it stop?

 

Uncheck all these entries & reboot. Run antivirus & anti malware utils.

 

sounds like a jackup to me. av/spyware/hijack - u'r general scans should ID or fix them.

i'd also throw a diskcheck at it HD corruption can be part of the problem too.