What happened to my 'MY PHOTOS'?

[MomNEEDShelp]

I did some kind of Windows Live clean-up last night. ( I was desperate since my PC is getting so slow) The scan took about 3 hours. I am not sure if, at the end, anything was actually fixed because I did not pay for anything or sign up for the trial offer. I then signed off/

Anyway... when I went to my email and tried to attach a photo from the MY PHOTOS folder in the morning, it had just a few things in it but none were photos.

Where did my photos go?

[patio]

The full Path to that folder is:

C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\My Documents\My Pictures

Use Windows Explorer to find this folder and see if your pictures are still there.

Check in here first for advice on whether a cleanup app is any good or not for future reference.

Good Luck and let us know...

[MomNEEDShelp]

Where do I enter that address? Sorry, I am not that PC smart.


Denise

[ALAN_BR]

Hi

Open Windows Explorer.

At the top left is "File"
Below this is the Back button
Below this is the Address Bar - enter the address in the space on the right.

The address you type can be as Patio suggested.

A convenient alternative which works for me,
and does not need me to know my UserName (which is NOT my log-in name) is :-

%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\My Pictures

Regards
Alan

[MomNEEDShelp]

Sorry, I still don't find what I am suppose to be doing. Can anyone help me get them back where I am comfortable finding them.


Thanks,
Denise

[reddevilggg]

Click on START then My Computer then click on your C:Hard Drive then Documents and Settings then click on Your user name then My Documents then My Pictures

This is the path to your My Pictures folder

[MomNEEDShelp]

No find!     How bout this....I only know about it cause I did it one before...Can someone tell me how to do a system restore back to Wednesday so I can go back to the way I was.

Then maybe some of you smarties can tell me what to do to make my PC a bit faster / clean it from all of it's acquired & not needed crap. 

Dee

[reddevilggg]

For 'System Restore'

Click START then All Programs goto Accessories then System Tools then System Restore

It will show a calender, choose the closest date before the problem happened.

Have you got CCleaner

Have you tried Disk Dleanup  and DeFragmenting?

[MomNEEDShelp]

Ok, first let me thank you for the easy explaination of the system restore.

Now...I still do NOT see my photos in MY PHOTOS folder. ?    I normally open my AOL mail and click on the ATTACH FILE button and then the BROWSE button. From there I would find MY PHOTOS in the drop down menu. (Look In:)  I would click on that and the list of names photos would be there. I would click on the one I wanted, then click on ATTACH.  Viola, my photo would attach.

Now, when I click to the drop down menu on MY PHOTOS, the list of them does not show.

Am I making sense?


Please help. I need those pics.


Dee

[reddevilggg]

Do you still have your photos in your mail?

[MomNEEDShelp]

Huh? I can't find them so I can't attach them. How do I get that folder MY PHOTOS back???

[reddevilggg]

They seem to be deleted you could try http://www.recuva.com/

What was the "Windows live clean-up". I dont understand!

[MomNEEDShelp]

I don't know. I went to google and asked something like... HOW CAN I CLEAN UP MY PC? or HOW CAN I SPEED UP MY PC?  I got a link for "Windows Live". Figuring it was Windows and was safe, I ran it. It took like 3 hours and said I had some problems. At the end, I think it asked if I wanted the trial version and I said NO. I figured I would forget to cancel it and end up paying for something I won't use.

I did a system restore to yesterday. WHY AREN"T MY PHOTOS BACK WHERE THEY BELONG IF I RESTORED THE SYSTEM???

[reddevilggg]

If you go back to Google and type h or how, you might get a drop down menu showing what you typed.

If so, could you reply with exact wording so i can google the same to see what you did

[reddevilggg]

Is the folder called 'My Pictures' which is the default Windows folder or is it called 'My Photo's'. Have you created the folder yourself?

Have you tried http://www.recuva.com/?