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I've gone a couple of days without having a problem after removing the folders as long as I don't reboot. So it definitely appears that rebooting restarts the issue. I just did what you suggested, remove the folders and make sure that the site was working correctly. I then did a clean reboot without any non-MS services nor any startup items starting up. Again the problem appeared immediately after the reboot. Something in the reboot is deftly triggering it, I may look at the MS services that automatically start during reboot and see if I can disable any of them without causing any problems. Any ideas what ones to try?
That might be too dangerous.
If you are willing:
delete the folders again
do not test the website
do the clean startup steps - reboot as a part of those steps
check to see if those folders came back without starting IE
I would expect everything under C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch to be rebuilt upon reboot. I'm not sure what else should show if IE is not started after folder deletion and a clean reboot.
Without going into a lot of detail, just let us know if there are folders in these 3 areas:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
If there are, then I'll do some testing on my end before suggesting the next test.
I believe I found the problem. I had tracking prediction turned on for Internet Explorer and the following protection group was enabled :
Name TRUSTe
Status Disabled
Address
http://easy-tracking-protection.truste.com/easy.tpl
I disabled it and rebooted and everything worked after the reboot! I'll continue to do some more testing to make sure but it looks like this may have been the problem. Maybe for some reason the website uses tracking protection to give you more localized news and weather?