Re: Vista deletes folders on reboot

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On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:12:31 -0600, Dale <denhoff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Malke wrote:
Dale wrote:

Any folder starting with the letter a or a number will be deleted upon
reboot. It also empties the recycle bin on reboot but I have resigned
myself to live with this idiosyncrasy.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

This is certainly not normal behavior. Let's narrow down the
troubleshooting:

1. The First Question Of Troubleshooting: If the problem is new, what
changed between the time things worked and the time they didn't?

2. The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus
status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and
versions) did you use to determine this?

Be sure the computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

3. You say "any folder". Do you mean any folder located anywhere or only
folders located in a particular directory? If the latter, which one (please
give its exact path; i.e., c:\Users\Documents)?

4. Do you have any third-party software installed that does automatic
cleaning?

5. Did you use a registry cleaner?

Malke

The only change that I made was to run spybot and antivirus(AVG) both of
which found no problems.

The folders affected are only located in root directory c:\ and not
subdirectories. And as I said the type deleted start with "a" or any
number.

I only clean manually and have not done so for weeks.

Same goes for the reg cleaner.

Did this happen after you used the reg cleaner ?
.

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