The city of Arroyo Grande (right next to me in Pismo Beach) has instituted the same program. They are now paying 50 cents per square foot. They do have people go out and visit the residents to make sure they actually have a watered lawn and then they return when it's been removed to confirm that. It's pretty simple. They almost got to the point of mandating drip systems as well but I've started doing a series of monthly seminars for them, with the public invited, and I'm dismissing the effectiveness of drip systems. They don't have a list of appropriate trees that they promote but my seminars include a LONG list of plants that are drought tolerant. This all works because these are people who have made time to come and hear this information. The City of AG is not going around being "sustainable" police. I've seen lots of programs in other cities and I'm not sure if any city has it all down right. Joe Joe

Dar, It does sound like a corrupt application after a virus attack. I have only recently started to recommend REVO Uninstaller as I have had time to use it under various conditions. In your situation, if I were attempting to remedy the concern I would download and install REVO. Then I would reboot into Safe Mode using REVO to remove American Greeting application. A fresh reinstall of AG should hopefully resolve the concern. DA

I would try to do a Restore. If that doesn't work, does your PC have a built-in Recovery function? Or, do you have Windows CDs? You'll know for next time to never delete anything in the Programs folder. And, the date shown in the default view is the date modified (saved), not date last accessed. Assume that all main operating system files and utilities will have dates that are earlier than the date you bought the computer. Never touch 'em.

Don't clean up to much! When in doubt don't do anything. I have seen a lot of problems when cleaning up too much. Leave all those programs listed there as is. The only thing you need to do is run TFC, CCleaner, ATF. Then do a defrag. Then check out what's starting up with windows and get a hold of the unnecessary start ups. Startuplite is a good program to use for that from Malwarebytes. Once the computer is running good , flush out the System Restore points by turning system restore off and back on. This will free up space and clear out any possible bad restore points. Here is a link that might be useful: Start up lite