So my Vista laptop updated last night and it said restart to finish updates
well I didn't restart it and waited for awhile then fell asleep and it
restarted so I thought....when I woke up it didn't fully turn off so I had
to hold the power button down to shut it down then I turned it back on but
when I got to the sign in window and signed on it said preparing desktop
which normally only opens when you install windows, anyways I got on and
everything was back to like if I installed it, background was back to its
default, and the sidebar didn't have any other gadgets except for the ones
it comes with, but all my programs were still in my laptop but no short cuts
for them were on the desktop just the default short cuts so I went to my
documents.......nothing in there but when I looked it up in explorer I found
they were still there in the same location so I looked at where the new my
documents were location and it was in C:\Temp which told me this may be only
temporary so I held the power button down again so the new settings wouldn't
get saved and restarted it and then signed back on after powering it up and
found everything was back to normal.....so I thought some programs got
screwed up......Microsoft word wont let click where the text goes or
highlight anything and on the setup menu for it, it wont let me click the
tabs, and when I close it, it starts not responding, and checking for
solutions.

I'm running windows vista ultimate X-86 based with 1 GB of RAM and Athlon
dual cores