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Restoring user account
Hello!
I managed to get a big problem last night. Not sure if this was caused by Windows System Restore or the uninstallation of HP Photosmart printer software. I was doing a reinstallation of the software and had to uninstall it first. It took very long the uninstallation and I had previously been worried that the System Restore point creating was disabled (had been an issue on another computer). So I checked the System Restore at the same time trying to find out.
Opened the System Restore, clicked next and found four restore points (latest about 1-2 months old). At the same time I noticed that the desktop went dark (had a very bright desktop background image) and all the icons except for "My Computer" and "Recycle Bin" was suddenly gone. Looking more I found the entire Users folder with Desktop, Documents, Start-Menu, everything was gone. All other folders like Program Files, Windows were still there though.
I managed to run a portable version of Undelete 360 on my USB memory stick finding that the contents of the User folder was either in the "deleted area" of the Recycle Bin (it was empty) or in folders called things like "C:\Deleted xxxx" etc, where the x:es are numbers.
I did not even load any Restore point, just checked to see if there were any and that the creation of Restore Points was activated. Why would that ever make my Users folder be deleted? I don't get what happened. I am so clueless. Most of the things were already backed up fortunately but trying to recreate the Start-Menu and all items in the AppData folder, etc. will be a nightmare and hours of work...