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starbase1
11-14-2008, 11:15 AM
I am definitely NOT having a good day. First on my fast machine the C drive starts dieing, and now the other one, this one, I rebooted for a virus scanner update, and it came back with some sort of temporary desktop, giving a message that there was an unspecified problem with the old one!

Complete with irritating animated yellow dog that I thought I had banished years ago...

Doing some quick checks, the new desktop appears to be living in c:\Documents and Settings\TEMP\Desktop

I was able to find my old desktop files, which appear intact... But it's not just a case of things like getting the desktop layout back, (and killing the yellow dog), as my email (thunderbird) dos not know who I am, and I am sure there are a load of other problems associated with the user ID waiting to come up.

I guess I can run a disk check, anyone got any other ideas for restoring my stuff, or getting more info from windows on exactly what is stopping it from getting my info?

Nick

starbase1
11-14-2008, 12:36 PM
OK, after someone pointed me at the built on XP restore (How did I get by without that? Too much time doing graphics, to little reading windows manuals!).

Some stuff has come back from when the system was first installed (A link to AOL?!?! That went 10 seconds after my first boot...)

Nick