Hey, this fix was pretty easy for me. I just ran Ad-Aware, Disk-Defrag, Ewido Spyware remover, scanned with Avast, and re-install windows XP... its not exactly what I wanted to do, but it worked....

Yea.. I see where you're coming from. I thought instead of doing multiple threads.. y'know? Anyway... I got the problem resolved.. figured I'd throw in my two-cents in this thread and hope it helped...

Okay, unfortunately I didn't get any help with the situation, so I did it myself. It's not quite how I wanted to. I don't believe that I was infected with a virus, I think maybe just a corrupt file...

Nevermind. I figured it out.

So, I recently installed Windows XP on my computer, and immediately afterwards, I was unable to open and of the folders on my computer, such as what's listed in the Thread Title here... instead my...

Oh, well I apologize.. I was just trying to make things a little easier on everyone.. didn't know.

Okay.. so I don't mean to butt in here, but with the exception of the cursor issues while typing, I'm having the exact same problem as the previous person, and I didn't see the point in starting a...