Have a look under "Documents and settings" for a duplicate profile-folder.
You may find your files and settings in here. Chances are the OS has been
unable to load your profile for some reason, and has 'sidestepped' it.

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"This is a wonderful computer. It''s 20yrs old and absolutely reliable.
And, in all that time it''s only had four mobos, six processors, two cases,
seven OS''s ...."


"cleorex" wrote:

> I turned on my laptop this morning and it acted as if it was the first time
> it was powered on. It was loading settings, the background was changed to
> the standard XP background. I didn't get any warnings, no blue screen, and
> all was fine yesterday. When it finished (I didn't get an option to cancel
> it) I lost all my emails, favorites, personal settings, shortcuts, histories.
> All my documents are there (yes!) and programs are fine.
>
> Any ideas? I tried to restore to a prior time but all restore points were
> gone. Any way I can find my emails (at least??). I already called Comcast.
> No luck there. Please help!