C:\Users is gone!

I need some help.

A few days ago I turned on windows update and downloaded and installed all the security updates available for my win7 ultimate 32bit.
Everything was fine up till yesterday when I started crashing playing CODMW2.

So I went to look in my user folder to see what was up and its gone. Not hidden, but gone.
Instead, all of the folders that would have been in the user folder are now in my C:\Documents and settings folder.


Anybody got a clue what is going on.?

I tried to do the system restore, but it just freezes up at the start and theirs nothing in the windows error logs.
and I tried the fixit, no luck. Everything is still the same.

Except for the crash with CODMW2, the system is running fine.

Here's the strange thing.
Most applications are storing their data in the default location (according to their property links) in the C:\Users\tk\appdata folder. But its really being written to C:\Documents and settings\TK\appdata folder.

But after doing the fixit things have changed. The documents and settings folder has now become "Desktop" folder.

The C:\Desktop folder has all the original files that use to be in C:\users folder.

And when I try to make a new file on C: called USERS. It says I already have a file called "desktop".

Here you go. Maybe this will help.
This is the files on my C:
Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/e7429201081500pmj

and this is the folders in the C:\documents and settings folder ( which has since changed to C:\desktop)
http://yfrog.com/0o429201081844pmj

WindowsStar said:

What happens if you logon as Administrator? Do you see the same thing?

Even under administrator, its the same.


I did find the cause of the crash tho. It was a messed up nvidia driver.

Vaylon
could you pls report if it was a recent Win 7 MS update nvidia driver. I have a current (optional) driver update sitting in optional updates.