Lost icons and progs and docs

[blackdog9]

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

[BeeCeeBee]

Right click on your desktop Blackdog and when you see "arrange icons by" make certain that "show desktop icons" is ticked.

[Tootech]

If beeceebee's idea doesn't work it may be that you have a corrupt user profile.

 

Logon in Safe Mode as Administrator

 

Use Windows Explorer to have a look down the Documents and Settings folders and look for your logon name. There will also be a 'Temp' Username listed.

 

Have a look in the My Documents and My Pictures areas - are your documents still there?

 

If so, create a new User Account, reboot, logon to your new account - that will set it up, then copy over your data.

 

Microsoft have a quick guide here

 

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in Windows XP

 

Also, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express your mail accounts will need moving over - if you need to do that, come back and we'll go through it.

[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.

[Match]

running some sort of scan disk check

 

can you be more specific and tell us the name of the program?