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tml777

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12. July 2010 @ 15:34

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Hello!

I hope I'm posting in the right section, I went through all the sections and thought this section best fit the problem I'm having.

Okay so yesterday, I leave my laptop on cause I'm downloading something .. I come back after a while and the laptops restarting because windows was installing updates .. so I wait while the updates are installed, wait for it to restart and I notice that when it turns on everythings different .. okay not everything but things were changed up .. most of my software like norton, microsoft office and all that was left fine, but my desktop was changed to some default windows wallpaper, my documents/music/pictures folders are all empty!It's sorta like .. its been reformatted. So I freaked at first thinking everythings been deleted .. I check out the C drive on my laptop and see that same amount of memory I had last time remains which I found odd, since I had a shitload of movies saved on the laptop which were now missing. So I hit the C drive, clicked Users folder, click my regular username thing and all my files and folders show up under it!

I restarted the laptop a few times after that praying things would go back to normal and when I turned it back on I got some sort of error message about my user accounts and being logged into some temporary profile - I don't have any user accounts on the laptop.

I tried to use the system restore thing but it failed the first time I attempted it and now it's telling me there are no other system restore points :(

I also deleted the windows updates but everytime I would be asked to restart they would re-install on their own.

Anyone know why/how this happened? And how I can go back to my old stuff - by this I mean when I click the documents folder on my desktop why won't my files show up!

Sorry for my lack of proper use in computer terminology.

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