moved my user folder!!


  1. mickeyfn19
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    windows 7 ultimate 64bit
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    moved my user folder!!


    my son recently moved my user folders to another drive but just dragging and dropping, he needed more space to install a game. now, even after ive moved it back. i cant launch anything except firefox. it all tries to launch in wordpad. ive tried everything like downloading the exe fix files. i cant download the lnk fix files. etc etc

    can someone please help me out.
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  3. mickeyfn19
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    bump
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  4. MourningStar
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    system restore
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  6. essenbe
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    You may see if this will help you User Folders - Restore Default Location
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  7. andrew129260
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    Windows 10 Pro
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    Since this was done, you are now probably signing in with a temp profile. You can try right clicking the users folder and choose restore previous versions. Then choose a day before he did this and click restore.

    Restart and the issue should be resolved.

    Now give your son a limited user account so he cannot screw stuff up next time.
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  8. mickeyfn19
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    all sorted thanks for all the help guys.
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