Guest A3 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 After messing up mcAfee, I decided to do a system restore (Windows XP Home, SP2). After that, my own account works fine, but the account of my wife is totally messed up: starting up in XP mode in stead of 'Classic look', her wallpaper is gone, outlook can't find the pst-file, IE is missing all favorites, etc. When I look into the "Documents and Settings" folder via my account, I see all necessary folders available for her account, but when I look under her account, the hidden folders are not visible. I tried to make the folders visible via the folder options, but it is not possible to show these folders while the settings are not stored. Has anybody an idea how to resolve this problem?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: System restore with 2 users "A3" <A3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9EA9CA24-CAA7-43B6-88FE-68926AD55D63@microsoft.com... > After messing up mcAfee, I decided to do a system restore (Windows XP > Home, > SP2). After that, my own account works fine, but the account of my wife is > totally messed up: starting up in XP mode in stead of 'Classic look', her > wallpaper is gone, outlook can't find the pst-file, IE is missing all > favorites, etc. When I look into the "Documents and Settings" folder via > my > account, I see all necessary folders available for her account, but when I > look under her account, the hidden folders are not visible. I tried to > make > the folders visible via the folder options, but it is not possible to show > these folders while the settings are not stored. Has anybody an idea how > to > resolve this problem? Have another look in "Documents and Settings". I suspect that she now uses a different profile folder than she did before. When you find the old profile, copy it over the new profile and make sure to include subfolders and hidden files.
Guest Bert Kinney Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: System restore with 2 users Hi, It possible the user account is corrupt. I would suggest creating a new account and move the data to the new account. How To Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783 How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151 Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org A3 wrote: > After messing up mcAfee, I decided to do a system restore (Windows XP Home, > SP2). After that, my own account works fine, but the account of my wife is > totally messed up: starting up in XP mode in stead of 'Classic look', her > wallpaper is gone, outlook can't find the pst-file, IE is missing all > favorites, etc. When I look into the "Documents and Settings" folder via my > account, I see all necessary folders available for her account, but when I > look under her account, the hidden folders are not visible. I tried to make > the folders visible via the folder options, but it is not possible to show > these folders while the settings are not stored. Has anybody an idea how to > resolve this problem?
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