Hi all
My partner is a teacher and working on a school laptop with W7 enterprise.
Early this week she went to school and could not find one of the desktop links to some programm the school uses.
She then asked the school IT person to have a look. He comented various things to her and one of those was that she would have a few temp profiles.
He obviously fiddelt around and handed back her machine and the desktop had changed totaly. Also gone were her bookmarks in FF and Windows Mail(client) which I had installed for her so she has a client for Gmail.
My partner challenged the IT man though he refused to acknoledge the f.. up.
Now, is ther any chance of recovering a profile? Or, do I have to install the Windows Mail all over again?
1) Run a system restore to a time before the machine was handed over to the IT person.
2) Look under C:\Users for the lost profile, if its there you can login with an admin account and copy off those files. Those files can be then copied back into the existing account.
3) Use something like Recuva to try recover lost files.
Hi Bill2
Thanks
I will have a look and see what I can do.
Does it mean if the profile gets deleted under; start-rh click computer- properties-profiles it may not be deleted in C: users?
I will also look for system resore.
For future reference it's good to use an imaging program to take regular system snapshots. If someone hoses the system and you lay the image back on, you've only lost changes since the image was made. For non system files like graphic images, text files, word processing etc.., if you just copy those as files to an external drive, you can copy back after doing the image restore. Then the only loss will be things like system updates, newly installed programs etc..
If you use a lot of portable apps just keep them under a directory other than programs. I have a bunch of small utilities under C:\Utils. To save them I only have to drag that folder and any settings in AppData to an external drive.
I like SyncPlaces since it lets you use your own ftp account. With Chromium I'm pretty much stuck using Chrome sync. Another nice thing about SyncPlaces, you can download your saved bookmarks and passwords say onto a new install of FF and the bookmarks toolbar will be restored correctly. No diddling around dragging and dropping stuff to get it in the right order.
I tried to lobby the SyncPlaces developer to do one for Chrome. My pleas were ignored as expected.
Never use the Bookmarks bar with Opera, using the Bookmark Panel is far better with its search field & in the context menu there are 11 different options for sorting & viewing the bookmarks.
Most weeks I install a new snapshot of Opera as a portable & a quick Synch & all my bookmarks, Notes & Speedials are back .
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bitIntel Core i7 4770K overclocked to 4.7GHz Qua...16GB Team Group Vulcan Gold 2133MHzATI Radeon HD 7880 Series Display adapter
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
self build
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4770K overclocked to 4.7GHz Quad Core Haswell
Motherboard
Asus Z87 Pro (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard
Memory
16GB Team Group Vulcan Gold 2133MHz
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 7880 Series Display adapter
Monitor(s) Displays
NEC LCD2690WUXi2
Screen Resolution
26" 1920 x 1200
Hard Drives
Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s
PSU
Corsair AX760 Platinum
Case
Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower
Cooling
XSPC RayStorm 750 RS360 Water cooling
Mouse
Razer Death Adder left handed
Internet Speed
126Mb download 11.5Mb up
Antivirus
Avast free
Browser
Opera
Other Info
Main Browser is Opera
Favorite software Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop
best plugins Nik software
Firewall : Private firewall 7
"Profiles" doesn't appear on the "computer properties" page. However all the current users should be under c:Users as various subfolders. If not there, then as Bill2 suggested, Recuva may help expose deleted files if they haven't been overwritten.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bitIntel Atom 1.86 GHz2 GBIntel GMA 500
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
OQO 2+
OS
Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
CPU
Intel Atom 1.86 GHz
Motherboard
OQO 2+
Memory
2 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Intel GMA 500
Sound Card
IDT
Monitor(s) Displays
LCD
Screen Resolution
800 x 480 (portable) 1280 x 1024 (docked)
Hard Drives
64 GB SSD
PSU
9 Ah Battery (portable) or OQO Brick (docked)
Case
Shirt Pocket Sized
Cooling
Tiny Fan
Keyboard
Slide out (portable) DiNovo Edge (docked)
Mouse
Eraser head (portable) Logitech Bluetooth (docked)
Hi all
My partner went back and asked the IT guy to go over once more and sure enough he did get it back, don't know how/what he did.
I just don't want to stir it up nor do much on her machine as he blamed me once before. The bookmarks are backed up on Mozy though I did not want to elaborate this to the IT guy.
I will check out all the suggestions, many thanks!
Very much appreciated
