Google StarForce and the issues it causes. It's not a Microsoft issue, it's
a legal, public virus that StarForce put out dubbing it "anti-piracy"
measures.

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"lanec" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I did some more investigating as to what could fix the problem and now I
> am really stumped.
>
> I went to the registry
> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\
> Explorer\Shell Folders" where Windows is supposed to take its que as to
> where the system folders are. All I found there was correct settings.
>
> [image: http://www.lanecampbell.com/img/problem1.gif]
>
> Next I went and tried to use iTunes which tells you where the profile
> is stored. Sure enough it had lost all its settings but at least it
> told me where it was now looking for my profile.
>
> [image: http://www.lanecampbell.com/img/problem2.gif]
>
> So I go to upload these images to my web server to share them on here
> using FlashFXP. It has its own file browser which I set to take me to
> my documents folder, upon opening it up I am taken to the same path as
> in iTunes. After I manually navigate to my documents folder in
> C:/Users/Lane I am confronted with this.
>
> [image: http://www.lanecampbell.com/img/problem3.gif]
>
> My folders have been duped and even if I delete one they just come
> right back.
>
> Now I face the prospect of having to backup all my stuff and doing a
> full reinstall (3 - 6 hours) in order to get my system usable again. I
> have been trying to defend Vista but this seems to be a really big show
> stopping bug that I would like to make Microsoft aware of.
>
>
> --
> lanec