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Restore didn't restore everything

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I had a problem opening Yahoo so I restored my computer with a backup from 3 months ago that I knew worked then. After the restore the problem remained. I installed Firefox and Yahoo worked so the problem was IE9. Thinking that there was a part of the disk that was not restored such as parts of track 0, I reinstalled Win 7 which formated the disk before install. After the install of Win 7 Yahoo worked using IE9. I then installed Acronis and restored to a backup from 2 months ago, another time I knew did not have the problem. After the restore the problem was back.

It seems impossible but it happened and is presently happening. I have attached a screen capture showing the problem with Yahoo.

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The most likely thing, in fact the only thing I can think of, is that the backup was made with a wonk in it. I've backed up and restored various versions of windows, IE and used yahoo and never had any interference between the two. After restoring, trying unistalling IE 9 and then reinstalling it.