User settings reset?

M

minstrel

When I booted up this afternoon, I discovered that my user profile had
been kicked back to default. All my favorites, program settings,
desktop, etc. gone. Shutting down and restarting didn't fix things.

Curiously enough, the whole profile was backed up, something that there
was not enough room on the computer to do yesterday. So now I seem to
have my old user settings sitting in a .bak folder right next to the
current piece of crap masquerading as my settings. How do I undo this?

M. Parker
 
D

Dave Patrick

Sounds like the profile is corrupt. If the profile is corrupt, you can
rename the profile(while logged on as local admin), then when the user logs
on again a new profile will be created from the image in \default user. You
can then copy over the items you need from the renamed profile. Copy the
folder contents not the folders themselves. When your sure you have all you
need, you can delete the renamed profile(s). Use the import function of your
e-mail software.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| When I booted up this afternoon, I discovered that my user profile had
| been kicked back to default. All my favorites, program settings,
| desktop, etc. gone. Shutting down and restarting didn't fix things.
|
| Curiously enough, the whole profile was backed up, something that there
| was not enough room on the computer to do yesterday. So now I seem to
| have my old user settings sitting in a .bak folder right next to the
| current piece of crap masquerading as my settings. How do I undo this?
|
| M. Parker
|
 
M

minstrel

Tried copying over my NTUSER.DAT. It told me my profile was corrupted
after that and it was loading a temp profile. Looks like you were
correct.

*kicks computer* I suppose it could be worse.
Thanks for the assist!
 
D

Dave Patrick

You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| Tried copying over my NTUSER.DAT. It told me my profile was corrupted
| after that and it was loading a temp profile. Looks like you were
| correct.
|
| *kicks computer* I suppose it could be worse.
| Thanks for the assist!
|
 

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