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watch out for Norton products if you have them. especially older versions. I have cleaned 2-5 gb of old norton daily updates from a number of computers. If you HAVE an older version, why? Your maintenance includes upgrading to the latest version but most people don’t do it.

Ditto on Tree Size as a great tool. Saves a lot of time figuring out where the space is used up so you can find the lowest hanging fruit. Its how I found the Norton stuff in 3 minutes.

Love the irony… two articles later is a recommendation for HWmonitor, which installs ASK Toolbar

Joe… I agree in my own case, but these are mostly seniors who have 20 or 30 documents, no movies or music. I do have them rotate two if they choose to spend the extra money. It’s hard enough getting them to remove them safely. Which I don’t trust, by the way. It says it’s safe to remove while I still see blinking light activity on the flash drive. I always tell them to wait a bit before pulling it out.

I guess the question is WHY Microsoft chooses to create these directories when they are not in the Documents structure, just to make things difficult for people. They don’t show up even as hidden or system files, so why are they xcopied? I even tried pre-creating the folder and it still didn’t work, which makes no sense at all.

I do prefer the combination of /h and /c to let the copy continue and just ignore those anomalies.

Thanks to all!

I have been called on at least a dozen times since November to fix this kind of problem after the fact, lots of variations in the screens that come up. This kind of thing consistently gets through Norton, AVG, McAfee, MSE and others, which, considering how widespread it is, is disgraceful.

My solution after the fact, which has worked almost every time:
Boot with f8 to safe mode with networking.
Check Internet Connections in control panel or proxies and turn them off, even if you use other browsers
Check c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts and remove anything other than 127.0.0.1, even if they say they were put there by an antispyware program
Check Network Connections in control panel for DNS hijackings
Check other browser connections for proxy settings and turn them off

These checks will generally let you download AND update Malwarebytes Anti-Malware AND Super Anti-Spyware from Download.com, which have caught and cleared the problem almost every time.

Twice these things didn’t work and I removed the hard drive and ran the same scans on my own computer with a usb disk controller harness and the damaged disk. One worked, one didn’t.

Will try that disabling addins next time I go there. I am very suspicious of the apple code based on the timing. Thanks!

Have the opposite problem with IE8 send link/page and outlook 2007, win 7 64… IE8 starts up Outlook but outlook hangs. If outlook already started and running, it works fine.

it must be some kind of trick. my guess for the trick is that it would float pi (3.14159…) feet above the earth. No reason, just a guess.