Alert Box - One or more of the include folders is missing

[krzyazn]

Hi, recently, I started to get this really annoying message box popping up on my computer. It shows up every 5-10 mins. The top says Alert and the message says one or more of the include folders is missing. I just did a reformat yesterday and the problem showed up again after I did some installs. Has anyone had this problem before? I can't figure out what program is causing this to show up and I checked event viewer too with no information about it. I think it might have to do with .net framework although I'm not sure. I had an external hard drive connected to my computer while reformatting and also while getting the latest updates through windows update. There is a folder in my external hard drive that is named random characters and inside are two folders i386 and amd. I can't delete them. Any ideas?

[Steve R Jones]

Have you scanned both drives for nasty things?

[krzyazn]

yeah nothing

[bigBonehead]

What did you use to scan... Did you do the scans in Safe Mode with System Restore off?

[krzyazn]

well i used a-squared free and avast. rest assured there is no virus. Although I think i have pinpointed the problem to firefox because I noticed I got the error twice when I had to 2 browser windows open, although I am not certain

[krzyazn]

i doubt anyone will ever encounter this error but if any1 happens to, i realized that it was due to a firefox addon, sortplaces. Reinstalled it and everything is fine

[stretchr]

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Originally Posted by krzyazn

i doubt anyone will ever encounter this error but if any1 happens to, i realized that it was due to a firefox addon, sortplaces. Reinstalled it and everything is fine

Good thing you didn't bet on this because I just started getting the exact error you did so I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to post the solution!

Cheers,
Stretchr