Windows update 15/06/05

[Gunner]

I woke up today (16/06), turned on my pc and to my dismay I discovered that windows had reset my user profile. All my settings, bookmarks, shortcuts, everything was gone, everything!

I spoke with a friend half way across the globe, and he told me this also happened to one of his computers this morning. I'm just wondering, has this happened to any of you today? I think the windows update is to blame.

 

[J_Tweedy]

i didn't notice, is it really obvious?

 

[Gunner]

Well yes Tweedy, everything reverted back to default settings. I noticed straight away, because the desktop wallpaper changed back to the lame landscape default.

 

[duffers20]

You could have a look in teh documents and settings folder to see if your icons are in teh desktop folder within your user id, if they are, then you may be able to revert back somehow, although the windows users features aren't that good and I have had allsorts of problems with them in the past.

 

[NikolaX]

No problem here...

 

[Dekstar]

No problem here...

Seconded. But thanks for the headsup, if my computer resets then I know who to blame.

 

[JellyWorld]

Well yes Tweedy, everything reverted back to default settings. I noticed straight away, because the desktop wallpaper changed back to the lame landscape default.

Hmmm I didn't notice my desktop had changed until you mentioned it.

 

[Adidajs]

nope. not here.

 

[sinkoman]

I have auto update turned off. I just turn the service back on and update manually every so often, but now that you guys have mentioned this, I think i'll stay away for awhile.

 

[J_Tweedy]

I just got it and everything's fine

 

[WhiteZero]

If you have XP just fire up a Restore Point.

 

[Gunner]

You could have a look in teh documents and settings folder to see if your icons are in teh desktop folder within your user id, if they are, then you may be able to revert back somehow, although the windows users features aren't that good and I have had allsorts of problems with them in the past.

Yeah I looked around and my other profile was there, but I just couldn't switch back using control panel/user accounts thingie. I tried copy & paste, but after every reboot, it would reset anyway. Luckily I had a backup of my registry, I just double clicked on that, rebooted and it worked I have a bad habit of turning off system restore to save disk space hehe.

 

[Beerdude26]

Lol, I'd notice it if my user was completely reset. I've got a custom background, a custom login background, a custom boot screen, a custom color scheme and a custom media player

 

[duffers20]

Glad you got it sorted Gunner

 

[gweedodogg69]

I don't use system restore, I don't see much of a use for it. If I get a blue screen, I usually just find out the error and use my WinPE CD to fix it. I love that CD

Edit: and if my profile went gay on me, I'd just make a new one. I didn't lose data. I can login as administrator and copy my documents over.

 

[Cole]

I don't see much of a use for it.

Your computer totally ****s the hell up for some odd unknown reason.
You just go and click on a date.
Vollia, restored and fixed.

 

[Laivasse]

Your computer totally ****s the hell up for some odd unknown reason.
You just go and click on a date.
Vollia, restored and fixed.

There are some drawbacks though. One is disk space, as someone mentioned, and another is that if you're deleting spyware or malicious files from important folders, Windows is often stupid enough to back them up with Sys Restore.

 

[Cole]

There are some drawbacks though. One is disk space, as someone mentioned, and another is that if you're deleting spyware or malicious files from important folders, Windows is often stupid enough to back them up with Sys Restore.

True there are some drawbacks.
Though you can control how much space it takes up(Thank God).

Don't call it stupid it can't tell whats spyware and what isn't just like any other OS. If Macs had(?) system restore it wouldn't know what is spyware and what isn't.