Thanks for the replies folks. I tried the unhide.exe thing no joy. This nasy peice of work copies all your All program shorcuts to some folders names 1, 2, 3. It then deletes the shortcuts from there original location. As I have done a re-nistall I beleive that these folders then got wiped as trhere is no sign of them by all the search means at my disposal.

I have orders a Samsung SSD 830 256 Drive. I shall install my system folders fresh on that and probably BB folder. I have copied the BB folder to a spare hard disk. I have the everything pack 2012.5

I am not sure how to reinstall BIAB. I presume its a matter of getting out the original PG drive and then installing all the updates? I have had BIAB a good few years now.

There is a copy of Norton Ghost supplied with the SSD I shall image the drive when its pristine. Iknow the difference between image and back up, I was just lazy I confess. I did use system restore but the nasty virus wiped those files of my system - nice.

thanks for the sympathies


Win 11 64, Asus Rog Strix z390 mobo, 64 gig RAM, 8700k