blackdog9

Thanks Thanks for the replies but I have already tried both of these and nothing has changed the only other piece of information I can give you is the laptop was running some sort of scan disk check with a message not to touch the key pad unfortunely by accident a key was touched .Next time the laptop was switched back on icons gone and no progs in the start menu plus all my docs gone.

Any help will greatly appreciated.I seemed to have lost all of my icons off my desktop the only one left is internet explorer.I can not do a restore as I have no dates to go back to.Also when I go to start and all progs there are none there.If I go to control panel and add and remove progs all the progs seem to be there.Plus I seem to have lost my documents and pictures.I am willing to try and Ideas .Many thanks Neil