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Author Topic: computer settings/documents etc all missing  (Read 2110 times)

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sam waller

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computer settings/documents etc all missing
« on: May 01, 2007, 01:56:23 PM »
hello
after turning my computer on yesterday i found it took longer for the personal settings to load and when they did load only program files were present. all of my documents/music/photos etc were missing and whenever i opened a piece of software it came up with a screen saying things like "first time using opera" or stuff like that as if im going on them for the first time (which i aren't)
when i go on search i can find all of my original stuff but simply copying everything back across doesnt work as when i restart the computer later on it is all gone again.
its as if all of my computer "personality" (bit of a weird way of describing it) has gone.
any help is very much appreciated!
cheers
sam waller

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    Re: computer settings/documents etc all missing
    « Reply #1 on: May 01, 2007, 08:22:13 PM »
    what OS what protections do you have? anti-virus anti-spyware etc??

    i think your infected

    when did this start happening??


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    Re: computer settings/documents etc all missing
    « Reply #2 on: May 26, 2007, 07:32:40 AM »
    same thing just happed to me and i ran a virus scan and it comes up clean.  any suggestions?

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