Thank you all. I do have an external hard drive that I need to use a little more frequently. I don't think it has anything to do with the registry just that I use Sys Mechanic to clean up my pc and find broken registries and shortcuts, clutter. Yes I know I could do it myself, but sometimes I get a tad lazy. It did have good reviews which can sometimes mean nothing. I'll create another account and run it as an admin, because when I did that yesterday same results.