HELP !!! Win recovery virus now cant use ie favorites

[cvcman]

Ok I had the virus and got rid of it, I can find my favorites file but it doesnt show in the drop down "favorites" tab on ie, any ideas ??

[Panama Red]

If you found your favorites in a different location, simply move them to the Favorites folder under your user name.

[cvcman]

Red, thx for the quick response, can you walk me thru how to do that ?? I went to "search" and typed "favorites" and a folder coes up with all the links in it, I just cant figure how to get it to the IE drop down ??

[Panama Red]

What operating system are you using and what version of IE?

[cvcman]

win 7 and not sure on ie version, think I may have gotten it by clicking on the folder and unchecking "attrbutes" because mine has that unchecked, will advise

[Panama Red]

Go to this folder and see if your Favs are in there:

Computer/C: drive/Users/your name/Favorites

If they are not there, you need to find where they have been moved to and copy/paste them back to that folder. If they ARE there and are just not dropping down, try opening the Internet Options from the Control Panel. Select the Advanced tab and down at the bottom try using the Reset option.

[cvcman]

Red, ok I found the file and got it back in the drop down tab, but now when you go to "start", "all programs" half the stuff like "accesories" and a buch of stuff is gone !! Microsoft Word was gone and I went to seach and found it and dragged it to the desktop. The folders that are there all say "empty"
Powerpoint is missing too but it must be here because I can open things that were done on power point...
Any idea of a fix for this
Thx

[Panama Red]

Sometimes ya just gotta look around here a bit.

Solution for missing start menu shortcuts

[cvcman]

ok Red, Im stumped...I ran unhide again still the same, I can find powerpoint in add and remove programs and I can open things saved with powerpoint but cant find it under start-programs>>>
If I could just get a shortcut to the desk top >>>>

[glc]

You haven't read the posts in that thread completely.

Originally Posted by Panama Red Some of you may have encountered malware lately that hides the files from view, removes the desktop background and/or removes all the shortcut icons from the start menu. Unhide.exe will expose the hidden files again and a registry change will give your desktop back. Now, I'm happy to say, I found the missing shortcuts. Several threads on the web have discussed this without resolution. Some even concluded that you have to create all the shortcuts yourself or do a repair install of XP. I stumbled upon the solution quite by accident. The Accessories>System Tools folder was empty (except for IE with no addons) so I tried a search, including hidden files, for Disk Cleanup. Low and behold, it was in a folder in Documents & Settings>User name>Local Settings>Temp>smtmp. Inside smtmp I found three numbered folders containing the missing shortcuts. Simply moved them to the User's Start Menu Folder and voila! - All is good again. I don't know if the same folder is used by each rogue malware so you may want to do a Search (include System and Hidden files) for Disk Cleanup or Disk Defragmenter. Then just browse to that file location and see what you find. This sure is easier than creating new shortcuts for each Program or doing a Repair Install!

Originally Posted by Panama Red Update: Folder 1 in the hidden tmp folder as noted above should be moved to your Start Menu folder under the user's name. Folder 2 contains the Quick Launch icons such as Show Desktop. Those icons will need to be moved to: C:/Documents and Settings/User name/Application data/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch. I believe Folder 4 is desktop icons but I'm not certain of that.

[cvcman]

no i did read it all i just dont understand it, sorry. I have Win 7 and the program file is not empty BUT when you click on anything then it shows empty.
I have no idea...When i do a search for "disk cleanup" a disk managment box pops up but i dont see any files ??? Not sure how to search hidden files with win 7

[cvcman]

ok i found it when I went ot "search" and typed c:\programfiles
then the whole program file opened and I sent a shortcut for powerpoint to the desk top. Now my question is I would like the entire program file to show up when I click start, programs....because now it only shows a few things and they show empty.....

[cvcman]

also I noticed in the start program list it says "windows 7 recovery" is this a legit file or left over from the virus ?? It gives an uninstall option,,,

[glc]

You don't necessarily search for disk cleanup - you search for the things that are missing! Search for the exact name the shortcut had in your start menu.

[cvcman]

again, I found it.....reread my last post,thx