Greetings everyone,

I've had a little problem recently. In the folder:

C:\Users\fx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

It seems several thousand executables with various names using 6 digit hexidecimal notational with an appended ".exe.exe" were somehow created there(there were also some batch files, and probably other crap). Internet Explorer, I'm looking at you(as the date coincides with an accidental usage of IE; I really wish all programs would respect the default browser)! Didn't notice it for over two weeks, until I rebooted the other day. Suffice to say, several thousand processes makes a computer very, very slow. If they only put one or even a dozen, even a hundred I might have not even noticed so rapidly. Silly hackers, more is not better(over 4000)! Anyways, booted into safemode, deleted them. Problem solved. Ran Windows Update/Secunia PSI, made sure everything is up to date, and now it is. Even installed IE9 . Ran AV, and my system is apparently clean. That was almost too easy.

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So what's up with these roaming profiles? Any problems disabling the 'feature'? I don't seem to be a candidate for ever making use of 'the feature'. I just use my one computer. I don't need my profile on any other system. Is it safe to just disable/delete this now? Or is there a process to complete before disabling the roaming profiles to make sure I don't lose anything? There's over 6,000 files in there. Most of it seems like junk(like temp files, cookies, empty folders, etc.). But then there's some stuff that might seemingly be important like preferences and saved game data files for my installed PC games. Is all this roaming stuff just redundant, or will I need to copy any of it over to my local profile?

Thanks fellas.