Quote - Empty folders?  Disk not retaining files?  Almost sounds like a hard drive issues to me. 

Quote - There is a Trojan that sets the Hidden property of files and folders, and ruins more. Hope you don't have it, it came right through my protection as well. Some months ago, I don't recall which one any more.

A lot of utilities come with the option to install some AV as well. I allways have to take care to switch it off. Having two or more protectors active is a performance nightmare, I found out.

You are both wrong, I had to reset the default on the folders options. There is numerous posts on this on Google. It is a very common issue. *sigh

But one thing it did do is make my mind up to reinstall and carve down the OS to as little as possible to preserve my files. In fact it is entirely possible that for the time being I may revert back to XP Pro until I have enough facts to properly set up win7p. I may even go back to microsoft and make a major complaint and get them to upgrade me to ultimate. I have actually had enough issues with 7 that Microsoft offered it to me just 5 weeks ago. Could be my version (*disk) is corrupt too. I am not inexperienced on a computer. In fact in XP I am quite techy... so the leap should not be so drastic, and should not involve this many issues. At this rate i might even look into Carbonite as a temp solution to holding my files safe.

Thank you all for the help with this. I might be offline for a week while I fix this issue...

HugZ!
Ariana

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