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Drunken Watermelon:
Tried recreating the user profile?
Or even what the heck was it logged in as? Home doesn't have an administrator account.
quadrain:
Restart the computer a few times. Some times that helps. This has happened to me a few times and it sucks.
Procyon:
Open a cmd prompt as administrator and you might be able to see what is wrong
net user (list of users)
net user username (list of settings. look for active and such)
net user username /active:no (change settings. disable the unwanted accounts)
curriegrad2004:
--- Quote from: Procyon on August 12, 2009, 01:36:29 am ---Open a cmd prompt as administrator and you might be able to see what is wrong
net user (list of users)
net user username (list of settings. look for active and such)
net user username /active:no (change settings. disable the unwanted accounts)
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I don't think user permissions or settings here might be the problem. It might very well be a problematic application or service that's causing this issue.
--- Quote from: Drunken Watermelon on August 11, 2009, 08:10:02 am ---Tried recreating the user profile?
Or even what the heck was it logged in as? Home doesn't have an administrator account.
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Home Edition does have an Administrator account. You just need to enable it under User Accounts.
--- Quote from: Benpc91 on August 11, 2009, 06:09:44 am ---Okay, so a Windows XP update was running on my computer two nights ago. Those are normally harmless though, right?
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Normally they're harmless, but Microsoft is known to pull updates from WSUS (aka. Windows Update for Corporations, as WSUS is what I use at home instead of the slow crappy Microsoft Update) if the fix causes a problem that they can't solve that easily. Some security updates have broken applications in the past either due to poor coding or the developer doesn't want to spend the time on fixing the app to use more secure APIs.
--- Quote from: Benpc91 ---Well, I ran my computer the next day only to find my computer set to look as if it was at it's company default. Wallpaper was at the same old default Windows wallpaper, my bookmarks were all gone, and all things saved to my desktop/documents seemed have disappeared. However, shortcuts to programs I have installed seemed to still appear on the desktop. Looking further, I found that all my files were still stored in the same EXACT directory they were before the update, however on a different profile than the one I was on. Checking the control panel only gave me one profile as well (the one I was on).
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Looks like Windows 'decided' that your hard drive was either too slow or your NTUSER.DAT is corrupted and switched it to another temporary profile. Good thing that you did a System Restore to one week's prior.
Drunken Watermelon:
Home has an administrator account that only works in safe mode, enabling it will not make it display on the log in screen.
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