George Kaufman wrote: > > For the past month my hard drives have picked up strange subdirectories > that consist of a very long chain of > \<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<< George, What happens when you run SCANDISK? Have you tried using the explorer to delete C:\<< (or where ever it starts)? What happened? Error message? Folder came back? -- Jim Meagher ===== Micro Solutions Consulting Member of The HTML Writers Guild http://www.ezy.net/~microsol International Webmasters Association =====