User account settings have reset and it also wont save them when i shutdown

[I_R_Baboon_1469]

Hi. I use Windows XP Home edition. When i logged on as my
administrative account, all of my seetings had been reset
including desktop (with around 100 items on it), task
bar, screensaver wallpaper and theme, media player, and
basically all of my settings. When i shutdown or log off
and then log on again, my settings have reset again, it
treats me as if i have never logged in before. When i
tryed logging in as another account i received this
message: "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has
logged you on with the default profile for the system.


DETAIL - Access is denied."

It loads the account, but i get the same problem with
saving and restoring settings.

This is bugging me alot.
The last thing i was doing before all of this was i used
this command "cacls "c:\system volume information" /g
dave:f" so i could delete the lovsan virus amongst that
folder. The very last thing i did was change the amount
of space System Restore used from 6Gb to 2Gb to save me
space. Then i shutdown. Then when i logged on again i had
lost all of my settings. Any help?

 

[Jerry]

2gb might not be enough disk space for your system
restore to function properly. To save space the system
restore has the feature to delete all but the last
restore point.

 

[I_R_Baboon_1469]

unfortunately putting system restore back to 6Gb didnt
help the situation. how do i change whether windows saves
your settings at logout? also i have done a virus and
disk error check