MrRadio

I have a Toshiba Satellite, couple of years old, running under Windows XP Sp3. Today 197 folders appeared in my "My Documents" folder. Judging by the folder names they contain the drivers for all the hardware and features of the computer. My first instinct was that they were sommehow copied there and I was going to delete them. But what if they are not copies but the actual folders somehow moved to the MD folder. I'm sure that deletion would trash the system.
Many questions arise: are they copies or the real folder, how did they get to the MD folder, where should they really be, do I have an incideous virus that Symantec has missed etc. etc?
I would sincerely appreciate any help anyone can offer on this one, has anyone seen this phenomenon before.
I didn't see any abnormal operations on the computer before the folders appeared it was simply a case of they weren't there at 9AM or so but at 11AM they were.
Help appreciated

fromaron

Did you try a system restore yet?

gavpk

take an image of your drive with acronis or ghost, delete them, if it doesnt like it, load the old image back. and make a note that they're important files

MrRadio

Looks like they may be the real deal, even though each folder has a txt doc called backuplog.txt when I tried to delete one it couldn't be deleted because it was in use.... Hmmmmmm .... I feel a long night coming on.

Edit: Half an hour later .... rebooted and deleted them all ... what the heck I was going to have to rebuild anyway .... Phew all good. But still don't know why

Thanks for the offerings guys

tytower

The mouse move feature is often responsible for this . You do it yourself without realising it , close down the machine and swear blind you didn't do it,,,,but you did.

3XX

Why install sp3 yet lol