Quote: Originally Posted by
electriclott 
I had this same problem....and yes when i selected these files to be be deleted it ereased all my files........the fix that you provided did work...however every time i run my registry cleaner the problem occurs again...i think my reg cleaner (NETCOM 3)is deleting the strings...i should be able to ignore these files for deletion next time. It is curious why this all of a sudden happened...I have been running vista now for over a year and never had this problem...then all of a sudden it appeared about a week ago...I wounder if it somehow happened with a windows update. Any way I will update this post to let you know if it is my reg cleaner that is deleting the strings.......whatever you do dont select those files to be deleted in disk clean up...I had to reinstall vista...it ereased everything
My guess would be your problem started about the time that you installed your registry cleaner - those things cause more problems than they solve.
The thing to remember is that there is nothing a "registry cleaner" can do that you cannot do yourself using built-in Windows utilities, such as RegEdit. And if the thought of editing the registry is a frightening one, then you have even more reason to NOT use a "registry cleaner".