Hi again,
Somehow i forgot about this part of the forum on ETO, thanks to whomever moved it to the right place.
Thanks for the link KISS.
Cowboy Bob:
Yes, it's strange, and from the limited information i have so far it is a "junction point" not a true folder, and there is a problem with that because a new application might look for that folder. If Explorer looks for that folder it finds a folder that refers to itself because every application is supped to get referred to that folder (or something like that).
MS switched to using AppData and then set the permissions to these other folders to "deny" for "Everyone". If you or i change the permissions, we get into a folder that we are not supposed to look into. This is just plain dumb. Unfortunately it's the way they do things at MS these days. The first phrase in their employee handbook is "Ship it or get fired"
People were having problems because other third party system management programs (such as virus software) was looking into these directories and finding many, many instances of what it cant tell is not real, and wow there are plenty of non real repeats to scan if you dont know they are not real.
For my computer, i have a little program that reports the number of directories, and every time i rebooted there was like 1000 more directories. The recursion problem was causing a directory count that was something like 25000 more directories than where really there.
Supposedly they changed things for better 'security', but i dont think MS knows the definition of that word