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Personal settings don't cannot be loaded
Yesterday it happened to me for the first time that I opened my computer and instead of seeing the familiar desktop I saw a customized one. A message appeared saying that the director where my personal settings are saved could not be found and that instead this temporary desktop can be used but that no changes in it will be saved. I tried to restart the computer, but the problem just repeated itself. I wanted to update my computer to windows 7 anyway and had the disk so I did that thinking it might solve the problem, however to my astonishment the next time I turned on the computer the same problem accord with windows 7. However after restarting the computer my personal settings did load. I am wondering what is causing the problem and am afraid that it will repeat it self and maybe even worsen... Does anybody know what might be the problem, Thank you |
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Personal settings don't cannot be loaded
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:42:44 -0500, Tali wrote:
Yesterday it happened to me for the first time that I opened my computer and instead of seeing the familiar desktop I saw a customized one. A message appeared saying that the director where my personal settings are saved could not be found and that instead this temporary desktop can be used but that no changes in it will be saved. I tried to restart the computer, but the problem just repeated itself. I wanted to update my computer to windows 7 anyway and had the disk so I did that thinking it might solve the problem, however to my astonishment the next time I turned on the computer the same problem accord with windows 7. However after restarting the computer my personal settings did load. I am wondering what is causing the problem and am afraid that it will repeat it self and maybe even worsen... Does anybody know what might be the problem, Thank you I immediately suspect malware, but this is too mysterious for me to understand :-( Normally I would suggest System Restore or SFC (system file check), but the first will not work now that you've installed a new OS, and the new OS should have replaced all of the system files, so SFC would be redundant. Try it anyway, I guess. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |