"%USERPROFILE%" directory

[Guest]

Lately I've had occurences of the following folder appearing on the desktop
and in the C:\Documents and Settings\Sarah Back\My Documents\%USERPROFILE%.

It is an actual folder not a variable appearing in both locations. I can
remove it and things are fine. Ad-Aware, Virus Scan and Rootkit Detector
turn up no results. Checked the registry and found nothing to explain this
behavior.

Anyone with any ideas?

Thanks in Advance

 

[Kelly]

Verify that all the values in these keys do not contain any incorrect,
incomplete, or null entries (such as ""). Also make sure that all entries
that have spaces are included within quotes. These values can be checked
here: Start/Run/Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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[Guest]

Hello Kelly

Thanks Already checked the registry like I said nothing there under HKLM and
HKCU. Also not a problem with the taskbar, unless the app repairs more then
Taskbar issues.

 

[Guest]

I've seen in some cases where a badly written installer creates the folder
(as a bad example) C:\Windows\%ProgramFiles%\NewApp when the installer should
of of created C:\Program Files\NewApp.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm Good point Gis, I do remember something similar to that with CygWin.
I'll check into it to see if some application has a bad path statement.
Should be pretty simple since most apps don't try to write to the user's
profile, then just take the set variables from Windows.

Kelly I will do a more exhaustive search of the registry maybe I did miss
something.

Thank you both Will update when I have more info.