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I am posting this here after dealing with SOE's customer service for over 2 months. I have posted on many, many Everquest related tech help forums and it remains a complete mystery. Hopefully someone here will be able to help me. I cannot get rid of Everquest. I uninstalled it. I have searched for and deleted every Everquest related file and registry entry I can find (searches for eq, everquest, SOE, sony etc.). I have repaired my registy and scanned my computer numerous times. The problem is that I was once involved with the a beta test for the Everquest progression server. When you join a beta test for Everquest they have you install another version of the game named TestEQ. This allows you to keep test changes seperate from your ability to play the regular game. I finished the beta test without incident and never thought about it again. However after I left everquest and uninstalled it something strange began to happen: when I started some applications (napster and freedownloadmanager come to mind but there are many more) it opened up a window titled EQpatcher and began downloading the entire TestEQ to my desktop (which makes a really big mess). The correct application never opens and the process shows up as Documents on the process list. When I stop it the only EQ related files are the ones just downloaded to my desktop. Sony customer service keeps insisting that there is a file on my root named program.exe that is causing this. I have searched for it every way they have come up with and never found it. At this point I am seriously considering a total reformat and reinstall but this will mean literally days of downloading updates so I am hoping to avoid this. Any help would be appreciated, even crazy ideas at this point.
