Have you added or deleted any drives? Did you delete a program without using Add Remove in Control Panel? It would be helpful to see the location referred to-there's likely to be some consistency to these missing locations, especially if there are shortcuts involved. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Anapro <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I have been doing Spring cleaning on my computer to delete old files. For > some reason, I have started to get repeated, multiple pop-up messages > saying > that the "... refers to a location that is unavailable." when I delete a > folder. The pop-ups happen repeatedly for some time after the deletion has > occurred. Also get this sort of message when I open a zip file. I then get > a > warning that the temporary location that the unzip program apparently used > is no longer available. This has not happened before. I tried turning off > Google Desktop thinking it was a search update that was causing this, but > it > did not help. > > Anyone else run into this sort of problem? I am about to re-install Windows > because the system has become lethargic with lots of disk activity on boot > up - in other words, very slow operation. However, I am very curious as to > what may be causing the warning messages. > > Thanks for any input to this. > > Peter Shkabara > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml