Stuttering Directory Tree

Comments please.
I've never seen this problem before. I have a directory that is repeated over and over in the directory tree. It's under Documents and Settings. Then if you step down in the tree to any user, such as "All users" or "your name" etc. Select Application Data and under that there will be another Application Data and another and another. I've counted 21 so far. The names of the files in these directories have become too long for windows to read them. I looked in the registry and so far have not located this mish mash. I haven't touched the problem yet. I thought some outside ideas might be of use.

HammerHead said:

Comments please.
I've never seen this problem before. I have a directory that is repeated over and over in the directory tree. It's under Documents and Settings. Then if you step down in the tree to any user, such as "All users" or "your name" etc. Select Application Data and under that there will be another Application Data and another and another. I've counted 21 so far. The names of the files in these directories have become too long for windows to read them. I looked in the registry and so far have not located this mish mash. I haven't touched the problem yet. I thought some outside ideas might be of use.

HH

Was this a clean install or upgrade? Was it always like this? if not do you have a restore point to go back to?

Ken

Barman
"One essential thing with Windows 7 is if you have to manually edit items to only edit the actual locations and not the virtual ones"

I notice that some are marked with the small arrow, This denotes "virtual" or a shortcut? The actual would not be marked the same?

The restore point. Yep I got restore points and I have some back ups from Ghost. I wonder what would be the best to try first?