After rebooting finder window opens minimized

After rebooting this new iMac finder opens minimized or not the way I had it set up when it shut down. Don't have this problem with other iMac or Macbook pro.
There must be a setting I'm missing somewhere in plain sight.

This is a new 27" iMac O SX 10.8.2
After restarting finder finder reverts to the minimized size while it should come back up as I had left it when it was shut down. At least it does on my other mac's running the same software.

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Hi all i seem to be having a problem that was not happing before I installed the
Latest Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574) update. Here is the problem when I startup
The system and log on after the desktop shows up a finder window opens
To the top level in other words it opens my computer showing the drives
Net and devices it never did this before it does this every time now, ok
Now lets talk about what other people have done about this problem
It would seem that some of these solutions worked for some and Did
Not for other in other words it not all the same problem or solution.
1. Delete the finder pref plist did not work!
2. Check user login startup items no there was not any items in there that
Would cause this!
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4. And no I did not have any windows or app’s running when I shutdown
The system.
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it shouldn't be blank... it should look something like this:
finderinfo[0]: 164 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 510937 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty
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For reasons I won't describe, I had to erase and reinstall Leopard. After updating and installing everything, and after moving all my backuped stuff, I noticed something weird.
If I leave a finder window open before shutdown, at the next boot-up, this same window will reopen automaticly and if I do nothing, it boots up normally.
Maybe this is normal, but I really never noticed this before although I had my mac for several months now, and why the **** would my mac remember if I left a window open before shutting it down ?
Sincerely.

I just rebooted my system with 4 Finder windows open, and they correctly reopened when I rebooted this afternoon.
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I depend on this.
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hi there
I have not been a mac user for long - i have a macbook pro - and generally i am getting along fine.
however, I have a NAS box which I has a number of files on it on my home network.
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11485&vid=75326
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end open
Message was edited by: rccharles

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