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Just a follow up. I uninstalled and ran Malwarebytes and Norton Power Eraser, neither program found anything. I then ran CCleaner and manually deleted everything left I could find. I then reinstalled 13.32 and reconfigured everything. So far everything is fine and I have not lost any settings or had it reset to default over multiple shutdowns and reboots over the last four days.

If I were to uninstall it how could I be sure I got rid of all the registry info as well? Any guide for that to make sure I got it all? Thanks.

No problem. I really appreciate all your help. Obviously I have the cloned drive I could swap in, and I don't mind setting things up again, but if there's something to figure out here I'd rather figure it out. if possible.

Sorry. Yes, when I checked the properties read only was not checked nor was hidden.

I had been running 12.56 since it came out I'm sure. It's the version on the cloned drive, and I had updating cut off and had not updated it since cloning it. The problem is, that's the version that was basically blank when I cut the machine on Tuesday for the first time in a few weeks. It was fine a few weeks ago, my cp worked, I had 10 emulators set up and running, etc. I cut it on Tuesday morning and everything was reset: default theme with no others downloaded, no emulators visible or set up, direct input shut off, etc. - basically default settings with nothing installed. I went ahead and downloaded 13.32 and installed it before reloading everything thinking I might as well update if I had to reinstall everything. It took me a couple of days to get everything installed and tweaked. I cut it off last night and I had everything working in 13.32. I cut it on this morning and there was nothing there. Default screen, no emulators, nothing set up. Just like a couple of days ago when I cut it on and it had been running 12.56.

The log file that is included in the body of the message above is the one from this morning after everything had been wiped out. It was the second time I booted the machine and included just a couple of changes I made to the theme and to enable Slikstik support, etc. I upgraded to 13.32 three days ago because when I cut it on then it had been wiped clean. The log file that is an attachment above is the log file from a cloned hd I made about two years ago. It was running 12.56 at the time it was cloned. So, it has lost all settings running 12.56 and 13.32 in the last several days. Hope that helps clarify. Thanks.

I cloned my HD on this machine a couple of years ago. Nothing had changed really since then and the first total wipeout. Here is the log file and the config file from the cloned drive, the way it's supposed to be. Obviously it's an also older version of Gameex. GameEx.ini log.txt

I can do all that, but have you seen any type of Malware/Virus that just wipes out Gameex? I should mention that all the emulators are still working fine and still have all the custom control settings working, etc. It is just Gameex that has gotten wiped clean twice now in the last few days?

Trying one more time. I guess I actually forgot to attach the file. Hope this is the correct .ini GameEx.ini

Hope this is the right .ini file? If not let me know and I will get the right one. Thanks.

Sorry, I missed the spoiler bit. Edited the post to add it. Hope that's the correct way.

Alright here's the log info. This was the second time I cut it on this morning, after I had re-enabled the red theme and keyboard input and a couple of other things. This wasn't the log from early this morning when everything first disappeared again:

It does have a wireless adapter on the pc and it will logon to the internet automatically after boot up. Do I paste all this log and config info into the body of a message or send it as an attachment somehow?

Let me go check on directories and try and get the log file and ini file. I do know there is no user login info at play. It is an XP machine with only the default user and also there are no separate drive partitions. Only one installation of Gameex ever. Thanks for the help. It's strange it would just do this after several years?

Hello all, I've been using Gameex for about 5 years or so with no problems. I registered it long ago. I would sometimes go months without turning on my cab and all would be well. I used my cab about two weeks ago and it was fine. Turned it on three days ago and it went straight to the generic default Gameex startup screen (not the Arcade theme I'd been using for years). All my Mame settings were lost, the list of emulators was empty, etc. Everything was gone. I went into advanced configuration and everything was gone and empty. I went ahead and downloaded the latest version of Gameex and over the last couple of days reloaded and set back up everything, Mame, multiple emulators, etc. Last night I had gotten Daphne setup and everything was running smoothly. I had rebooted several times and so on. No problems. I cut the cab on this morning and everything was gone again. Back to the default Gameex startup screen, no emulators setup, all control settings gone, etc. Anybody have any clue where to start with this? No changes were made to the cab or the pc or anything? I hate to go through all the setup just to lose everything again. Hoping to find out a possible reason before I sit down with it again. Thanks in advance if anyone can help!