Will Not Load My User Profile

It may just need to be added, does a list of Outlook folders/files show up after you click on the ADD Button and can you find the profile from the list?

newenglandmom2 said:

I'd like to get my desktop back. Did I miss something? On the desktop, I have two ghost-like icons; one says the following when I open it: [.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

Are you showing your hidden files? Hidden Files and Folders - Show or Hide
I have the same files and wording, plus a lot more because of the way I have my desktop set up. Your desktop should work whether they are showing or hidden.

newenglandmom2 said:

I'd also like to have Firefox again, and I'm afraid that if I download it, it won't have my bookmarks (years of work!)

A FF profile is hard to lose, you can try the tool in this tutorial: MozBackup - Create a Backup of Your Mozilla Profile or you can follow this one: https://Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles | support.mozilla.org

A bit more on Outlook, scroll down to (Re)creating a mail profile You might also try clicking on the Prompt radio button above "always use this profile". That might show your profiles.
I'm at a disadvantage because I don't use Outlook or any of the associated programming. Heck, I don't even have a Mail icon in control panel.

newenglandmom2 said:

I guess something is wrong. This is the dialogue box that comes up when I click on Mail in the Control Panel:

I think I may have to set up Outlook again. Somehow it seems I did not transfer everything from the start
menu.

Which version of Outlook are you using. Can you open Outlook in the usual way, if so you can access the files I mentioned in Post #26 by selecting File & then Account Settings. Then select the Tabs & the Add icon as mentioned in the Post.

If you can't open Outlook in the usual way, you may have to reinstall it, or you could try an Office Repair, if have MS Office installed. To do that, open Control Panel, select Programs & Features, scroll down to Microsoft Office, Right click on it & select Change & that should open a couple of Repair options you can try.

If you can send emails, but you aren't receiving any, it's most likely your incoming mail settings are incorrect. These settings can easily be made incorrectly. Did Charter actually go through all your outgoing & incoming email settings. Sometimes support people at these places are not all that caring.

There might be some info in this Charter website that might help you. I notice that some parts of in refer to Charter & others to Spectrum. Is Charter owned by Spectrum? & are they the actual ISP for you.

Charter.net Set up Your Spectrum Email Account on Outlook 2010

Woo-hoo, I have Firefox back with all my bookmarks and home page. At least it seems that way for now...I may never sign off the computer again! Thanks Anak--

You're welcome!

Yes, make sure all settings are compliant to what is shown on the page link that Ranger4 provided especially from step5 down, and #8, it sounds like the protocols (IMAP) or port number (143) may be wrong for your incoming mail from charters servers.

One last item:


Check to make sure they match, I've had it here on Verizon Fios (Vz) where I had to reset the ID and password between Vz and my email client; They did match, I just reset them by clearing them out and re-entering the same ones and saving the "changes".

   Tip

You should change IDs and passwords periodically for security's sake, but if you want to keep the old one's for awhile, re-entering the same one's are acceptable at least it is on my Vz site.

If you never want to sign-off again ; I believe we're at a point where it should be mentioned that you should start thinking about a back-up routine, there are several options in no particular order to pick from:

• Imaging with free Macrium

• Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup

• https://Backup & Recovery 14 Free Edition | www.paragon-software.com

If you're using Firefox (FF) and continue to have problems try downloading (DL) itunes with your InternetExplorer (IE) browser, it seems that using any browser other than IE can corrupt the itunes DL where IE and itunes are more compatible. It's one of those quirks where certain DL's and sites just work better using IE.

There is help here: If you can‘t install or update iTunes for Windows

• In step #3 you can try either the XP, Vista 32bit DL or the Vista 64bit DL, but I've found out that since you have win7 64bit showing in your system specs you should use the 64bit version of itunes, see related below.

• In step #4 if you have itunes installed either one of these DL's should offer to repair your existing itunes program.

• Save these DL's for later because the next link has you removing anything related to the itunes installation.

iTunes: Windows reports that "iTunesSetup.exe is not a valid Win32 application" don't let the age of the FAQs page deter you.

Related:
Latest version of itunes for windows 12.5.1 64bit Click on system requirements to see 64bit requirement 5th line down: 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 require the iTunes 64-bit installer; for more information, visit www.itunes.com/download

   Note

You could try this DL to see if it could repair your installed version of itunes, and I would use this DL more so than the ones listed in the first bullet "In step #3".

Except for the downloading, make sure you do any removal process of programs and browsing history as administrator, and any repairs or installs as administrator also. When you're running the repairs or installs all you have to do is right click on the program and you'll see Run as Administrator listed, usually it's the second item on the list, cilck on that. And you'll have to OK (click on Yes) a UAC prompt to continue.