Lost most of window xp

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HI, 5 WEEKS AGO SOMETHING HAPPENED TO MY WINDOWS XP. I COULDN`T GET BACK
ON AND HAD TO CHANGE PASSWORD TO USE WINDOWS XP. I HAVE BEEN USING IT SINCE.
ALL THE BOOKMARKS ARE THERE BUT EMPTY, ON THE START MENEU THERE ARE SOME
ITEAMS LEFT BUT EMPTY AND SOME MIROSOFT PROGRAMS, SUCH AS WORD AND EXCEL ARE
GONE AND ALL ACCESSORIES ARE EMPTY. ALL THE PHOTOS ARE GONE EXCEPT THE
FOLDERS WITH SMALL PHOTOS ARE STILL THERE.
IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO SHORT OF REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP(WOULD LIKE TO BE
ABLE BURN PHOTOS TO CD)? IS THERE SOME METHOD THAT I CAN USE THE OTHER
PROGRAMS?

LEE SCHROEDER
 
Lee said:
HI, 5 WEEKS AGO SOMETHING HAPPENED TO MY WINDOWS XP. I COULDN`T
GET BACK ON AND HAD TO CHANGE PASSWORD TO USE WINDOWS XP. I HAVE
BEEN USING IT SINCE. ALL THE BOOKMARKS ARE THERE BUT EMPTY, ON THE
START MENEU THERE ARE SOME ITEAMS LEFT BUT EMPTY AND SOME MIROSOFT
PROGRAMS, SUCH AS WORD AND EXCEL ARE GONE AND ALL ACCESSORIES ARE
EMPTY. ALL THE PHOTOS ARE GONE EXCEPT THE FOLDERS WITH SMALL PHOTOS
ARE STILL THERE.
IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO SHORT OF REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP(WOULD
LIKE TO BE ABLE BURN PHOTOS TO CD)? IS THERE SOME METHOD THAT I CAN
USE THE OTHER PROGRAMS?

LEE
SCHROEDER
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Please lose the caps. It's considered yelling, is incredibly rude and makes
your posts extremely hard to read.

Please post back, when you've read, and inwardly digested, the following: -

How to Compose a Good Newsgroup Post


How to Act Smart on Usenet


Getting Your Post Noticed - and Answered
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp

Otherwise, you might as well try here:

Psychic Friends Network
(800) 592-7827
 
Lee, please be patience for a moment while I rant for a moment..

"is incredibly rude"... You are by far the *rudest person* /ever/ to post in
these newsgroups! Again, why do you waste your time in here if you are not
going to provide assistance to individuals in need.

Sorry Lee, I am back now... Let's see, you had a problem with Windows and
had to change your password. It sounds like you are logging into windows
under a different user account. If you navigate to c:\documents and setting
folder you will see the accounts for that computer. See if your files are
stored in the My Documents folder of any of those accounts listed (if there
are any)

Let me know what you find,

--
Best of luck!

Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCP, CCNA, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW A, CIW CI
 
Michael said:
Lee, please be patience for a moment while I rant for a moment..

"is incredibly rude"... You are by far the *rudest person* /ever/ to
post in these newsgroups! Again, why do you waste your time in here
if you are not going to provide assistance to individuals in need.
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I am, am I..? And you're basing that on what, exactly? Suggest you use
Google Groups and search for "°°MS-Publisher°°" as the author. You'll find
I'm extremely polite by comparison... I'm only 'rude' to those who deserve
it. Butt-munchers and arse kissers like you for example...

You've never answered my question anyway. How can you see my posts when you
have me killfiled...?
 
Michael,

You'll have to admit that it's better having "The Tick"
spend her time here, pleading for attention, than having
her roaming the parks molesting the statues.

Polly Anna
 
Funny, I just googled "author:°°MS-Publisher°° ". I looked at his/her 50
most recent posts, and it seems like this person just doesn't like people
who post wrong information, George W. Bush and *you* (and someone named
JoAnn). It seems like your the rude one in those posts, and this person
actually tries to help people in a polite manner, or at all.

Some posts are shaky, but he/she seems like a saint compared to you.

--
Paul Cyr

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Funny, I just googled "author:°°MS-Publisher°° ". I looked at his/her 50
most recent posts, and it seems like this person just doesn't like people
who post wrong information, George W. Bush and *you* (and someone named
JoAnn). It seems like your the rude one in those posts, and this person
actually tries to help people in a polite manner, or at all.

Some posts are shaky, but he/she seems like a saint compared to you.
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hmmm! sounds like someone killed your registry start menu
items and related shortcuts. Provided that theure still on
the drive, in your Program Files folder, you can manually
restore shortcuts. If however the "software" keys were
tampered with then you you must reinstall windows. If you
need to do the latter, then after all is done, open registry
editor and export a backup from the top section. Save this
on CD, if possible.
 
HI, 5 WEEKS AGO SOMETHING HAPPENED TO MY WINDOWS XP. I COULDN`T GET BACK
ON AND HAD TO CHANGE PASSWORD TO USE WINDOWS XP. I HAVE BEEN USING IT SINCE.
ALL THE BOOKMARKS ARE THERE BUT EMPTY, ON THE START MENEU THERE ARE SOME
ITEAMS LEFT BUT EMPTY AND SOME MIROSOFT PROGRAMS, SUCH AS WORD AND EXCEL ARE
GONE AND ALL ACCESSORIES ARE EMPTY. ALL THE PHOTOS ARE GONE EXCEPT THE
FOLDERS WITH SMALL PHOTOS ARE STILL THERE.
IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO SHORT OF REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP(WOULD LIKE TO BE
ABLE BURN PHOTOS TO CD)? IS THERE SOME METHOD THAT I CAN USE THE OTHER
PROGRAMS?

LEE SCHROEDER
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Did you change to a new password or change to a new account? Did you
protect these files with EFS or simply used NTFS to protect them?

If you changed to a new account, disk is formatted with NTFS and did *not*
use EFS, XP is still protecting the old data files for your old user
account. Take ownership of the files to regain access to them:
HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421

Any start menu shortcuts that were in your old start menu folders, can be
copied over to the start menu folders for your new account. The folders you
need to look at are :
Documents and Settings\<old account>\Start Menu
Documents and Settings\<new account>\Start menu
 
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