Have you tried to use system restore back to an earlier time everything was working?

Just go to start and type "system restore" in the search. Now click on system restore and when it starts select "choose a different restore point". You should now see a list of restore points. Click on the restore point you want to use and go to next.

Member SR84 has the very same problem that I am currently having. It started with my using a registry cleaner and cleaning files manually...bad idea :-\ The problem began with Mozilla Firefox not opening as stated by member SR84. Then I began receiving the error the %APPDATA% error while trying to open a document on IExplorer that needed to open in Adobe Acrobat. It offered an updated version (which was Adobe 9.0) but that was the version I had already. I tried to uninstall the version I had already, and replace it by reinstalling from Adobe.com again. That wasn't gonna happen. That's when I began getting the error code 1606 message as did SR84 and the program features would not allow me to uninstall the Adobe 9.0 application.

As far as the restore solution, well that's not an option since I did a disk clean not to long ago and deleted backup files from September backwards--to save memory and disk space. I saved the Dec 2008 backups forward; but I only noticed backups for December and not Jan through Feb 2009...strange I thought. Anyhow; I also neglected to consider that I had did a lot of file maintenance due to viruses and adware from online learning sources like eCollege, and MyScribe/Cafescribe and Adobe Digital Additions. It was mandatory to use these application for school and to access elearning Elluminate "live lectures". I often got viruses that had been transferred into threaded discussions by students and unwitting professors as well. Often, locating the source of the infraction to my system was less pertinent than resolving the issue and continuing online with the threads, sooo I often did a lot of uninstalling and reinstalling applications as needed to save disk space. Virus scans, popup security alerts and applications trying to make changes without permissions were the soup of the day with PCillin "Trend Micro Internet Security" Windows Defender and Windows Firewall Security.

Long story short; I actually cleared up the problems that were occuring during December's final exam's and holiday rushes of emails and viruses. The autobackup had saved those backups and when I did a backup and restore...I simply restore new problems with old issues and added to the dilemma. Sooooo, looks like backup and restore is out for me.

I still didn't notice the most current autobackups from January through February, 2009. I just had some from March 2009. Shouldn't autobackup work to backup and the intervals you have it set for all the time. In any case, the old backups are appearing to be useless and all the March backups are from the last week or so...which have the same issue with the %APPADATA%\. Hey, I am also getting a message from Mozilla that the Chrome Registration folder is missing a shell file. I have went into the "Guest" user's login to open Mozilla. It will open in the "guest" login; but not in the Administrator's login...which is mine. It open's but only after giving me the Chrome Registration error message several times. Then it opens.

As stated by SR84...HELP :-|

Key Name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsofl:\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 3/22/2009 - 12:35 AM
Value 0
Name: AppData
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %APPDATA%
Value 1
Name: Cache
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files
Value 2
Name: Cookies
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
Files
Value 3
Name: Desktop
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
Files
Value 4
Name: Favorites
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
Files
Value 5
Name: History
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History
Files
Value 6
Name: Local AppData
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
Files
Value 7
Name: My Music
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Music
Files
Value 8
Name: My Pictures
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Pictures
Files
Value 9
Name: My Video
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Videos
Files
Value 10
Name: NetHood
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE
Data: %\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts
Files
Value 11
Name: Personal
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Documents
Files
Value 12
Name: PrintHood
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer Shortcuts
Files
Value 13
Name: Programs
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
Files
Value 14
Name: Recent
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
Files
Value 15
Name: SendTo
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
Files
Value 16
Name: Startup
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
Files
Value 17
Name: Start Menu
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
Files
Value 18
Name: Templates
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates
Files
Value 19
Name: (374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B)
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
Files

Here's what I've got from my registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER...
Hope you can help with this. :|

Thanks Justin. Saves me some typing :)

andrewreases. Welcome to the forum. Please could you post your problem in a New Topic. Thankyou.