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Can't unlock Taskbar, Can't Pin to Taskbar, odd folder on desktop.
Hi, I am working on a laptop with Win 7 x64 Home Premium, SP1.
It was recently pretty badly infected, but has been thoroughly cleaned, and all additional bloatware uninstalled.
I am unable to unlock the taskbar, nor able to pin any shortcuts to it. There's also a strange folder that keeps appearing on the desktop, called %localappdata%, with a subfolder called 'elevatedDiagnostics'.
I enabled gpedit.msc. I have tried using the sevenforums supplied bat file to restore all Group Policies, to no avail. I searched inside of gpedit to the location that controls the locking of the taskbar, and it appears normal, as 'not configured', as are all the other entries under 'start menu and taskbar'.
I am trying to repair this without doing a full re-install of windows. I'd actually rather know *why* this is happening, and fix it manually.
thanks for any help!