User account

[Peachyduck]

Does anyone know how to restore a user account? My husband deleted mine
because he thought it had a virus and now all the pictures I downloaded with
kodak are gone. Is there anyway to get them back???

 

[Iceman]

Does anyone know how to restore a user account? My husband deleted mine
because he thought it had a virus and now all the pictures I downloaded with
kodak are gone. Is there anyway to get them back???

Here are two free third-party recovery tools:

Restoration:
http://www.webattack.com/get/restoration.html

Recover My Files:
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

 

[Leonard Grey]

When you remove a user account from Control Panel > User Accounts,
Windows asks whether you want to save the user's My Documents folder. If
you answer 'yes' the My Documents folder is copied to the desktop. If
you answer 'no' then the user's My Documents folder is permanently erased.

If your husband used a different method to remove your account, whether
or not you can recover the My Documents folder depends on what he did.

All in all, another good reason to backup regularly.

 

[Olórin]

Here are two free third-party recovery tools:

Restoration:
http://www.webattack.com/get/restoration.html

Recover My Files:
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

Sadly, the latter isn't free. From the website:

"Run the program and preview the lost files that it finds. Purchase a
product activation key to save the files."

 

[Peachyduck]

He did go under user account but doesn't remember if he said yes or no. On
the kodak software you can still see the pictures but they have a crack
through them and they won't let you open them. Im just trying to figure out
what to do before I call someone to try to fix it.

 

[Gerry]

Leonard

A minor point Pictures are normally stored in My Pictures not My Documents.

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Gerry
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[Olórin]

Leonard

A minor point Pictures are normally stored in My Pictures not My Documents.

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Gerry
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Yes, but it's a subfolder. Delete My Documents and you delete My Pictures;
restore My Documents, and your (her) pictures are back.

 

[Gerry]

Olórin

Yes you're right. In practice I have never used these systemic folders.


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Gerry
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[Leonard Grey]

If he said "yes" there would be a copy of your My Documents folder on
the desktop. If you don't see one, then--

STOP using the computer IMMEDIATELY.

The more you use the computer, the less chance you have of recovering
your files. Shut down Windows as you normally would. The /safest/ thing
to do now is to contact a professional.

 

[Leonard Grey]

To my coffee-sipping colleague: My Pictures is a sub-folder of My
Documents (in a default installation.)

 

[Roy Smith]

He did go under user account but doesn't remember if he said yes or
no. On
the kodak software you can still see the pictures but they have a
crack
through them and they won't let you open them. Im just trying to
figure out
what to do before I call someone to try to fix it.

Well if he can't remember if he said yes or no, one thing you can do is
to use search to look for the missing pictures. What the cracked image
means in the Kodak software is that it can't locate the file. What you
are looking at in the Kodak software is not the actual picture, rather
it's just a thumbnail of the image that was created when it was added to
an album. So click on Start - Search and type in a filename of one of
you pictures and have it search the entire C: drive.

If it finds the file, make a note of where it's located and copy the
files form there to your profile.

 

[Gerry]

Leonard

Yes I conceded that point earlier when Olórin said the same.


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Regards.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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