Blank line in MSCONFIG connected to error 148:3?

Install any Adobe CS4 product on a Windows OS and the software adds some number of Startup items to MSCONFIG including CS4ServiceManager, AdobeCollabSync and a blank line with no Startup file name or Command Line entry.
Until Adobe's products added those Startup items, I had no software loading from my MSCONFIG Startup group. The blank line was disconcerting so I unchecked it. That, apparently, triggered the dreaded "error 148:3" message about a licensing problem. That error can be resolved by running LicenseRecover.exe, a file available for download from somewhere on the Adobe.com site. However, as long as the blank line in MSCONFIG is unchecked, CS4 products will continue to not run and will continue to display the 148:3 error message.
So...what does the blank line in MSCONFIG do? What is it? How is it that Adobe can add an unnamed Startup item to MSCONFIG?
Jeff

Sengstack wrote:
How is it that you know your blank line is Bonjour? And how can
you know that mine is Bonjour as well?
I used The Ultimate Troubleshooter.
http://www.answersthatwork.com/
Of course I just guessed about yours.  

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    As Ow said, you should manufacture a column for use in the BREAK command, and use COLUMN ... NOPRINT if you don't want to see it in the results?
    The question here is, what is an appropriate column? CONNECT_BY_ROOT seems to work perfectly for your example
    BREAK     ON my_break_column     SKIP 1
    COLUMN     my_break_column     NOPRINT
    SELECT     columna
    ,     columnb
    ,     CONNECT_BY_ROOT     columna     AS my_break_column
    FROM     table_x
    START WITH          columna     IN (1, 4)
    CONNECT BY NOCYCLE     columna     = PRIOR (columnb)
    ;The rest of this message is an merely a tangent. I find it interesting, but feel free to skip it.
    You might think CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE was an obvious choice for a BREAK oclumn: you want to skip a line after every output row where CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE = 1.
    Unfortunately, BREAK always works when a column value changes. That is, you can't tell it "Please skip one line after rows where columnz = 1"; all you can say is "Please skip a row before rows where columnz is different than it was on the previous row". (At least that's what I think: I would love it if someone proved me wrong!)
    So we have to manufacture some column that keeps its value for an entire loop. The SUM of CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE (in DESCending order, as returned by the CONNECT BY query) would work. Analytic ORDER BY clauses seem to destroy the order imposed by CONNECT BY, so you'd have to do the CONNECT BY in a sub-query, capture the ROWNUM to preserve the order, and use the analytic SUM function in the main query:
    WITH     oq     AS
         SELECT     columna
         ,     columnb
         ,     ROWNUM               AS r_num
         ,     CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE     AS cycle_val
         FROM     table_x
         START WITH          columna     IN (1, 4)
         CONNECT BY NOCYCLE     columna     = PRIOR (columnb)
    SELECT     columna
    ,     columnb
    ,     root
    ,     SUM (cycle_val) OVER (ORDER BY ROWNUM DESC)
    --               AS my_break_column
    FROM     oq
    ORDER BY     r_num
    ;The only reason for actually doing this is to learn about CONNECT BY queries. CONNECT_BY_ROOT, as shown above, works much better for your requirements.

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