qquake2k
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Hey Guys,
I've always gotten better advice here than from our IT guy and the PC forums, so here goes. I have an older (5 or 6 years) HP Compaq PC at work. It originally came with Vista Pro, but last year the hard drive crashed. I had a new, bigger hard drive installed, and upgraded to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. The last few months it's been acting up, I've been having to reboot several times in the morning to get it to come up sometimes. Last Friday, I booted it as soon as I got here as usual, and it booted fine, except that the icons were missing from my taskbar. So I rebooted. When it came back up, nothing was the same. Background was different, email wasn't set up, all my defaults had changed. Apparently it lost my user profile. ALL of my settings were gone, but my data was still there. I use Thunderbird for personal email, and the program was still there, but everything else was gone. All of my old emails and my login information was gone. I had to set Outlook up like it was my first time. Fortunately, all of the Outlook data is stored on our exchange server, so I didn't lose any of my emails.
Our IT guy tried to recover my user profile from my Acronis backup, but couldn't. I tried to restore the system to the last restore point, which was Tuesday the 2nd, but that didn't work. That puzzled me, since everything was working fine up until Friday morning. Why wouldn't it restore the system back to the way it was? Anyway, I ordered a new PC, but it won't be here until the 15th (hopefully). It's taking longer, because I ordered it with Windows 7.
Until then, I've been trying to redo everything, but I've noticed a couple of weird problems. One, it doesn't remember my last folder settings now. In other words, when I used to open an existing folder (directory), and if I changed the view (say from list to large icons), it would remember that setting. Now, every time I open a folder it defaults to details view no matter what I do. It happens whether I open the folder from Windows Explorer, or from within a program (such as Photoshop).
Two, and this is incredibly annoying, Outlook won't display any images in emails, no matter who they're from. I've set it to download everything (see attached image), but it still won't. All images in emails now show up as a box with an "X" in it. But images do show up in Thunderbird, although I'm sure it's unrelated.
Any advice, thoughts, opinions, or similar experiences?
I've always gotten better advice here than from our IT guy and the PC forums, so here goes. I have an older (5 or 6 years) HP Compaq PC at work. It originally came with Vista Pro, but last year the hard drive crashed. I had a new, bigger hard drive installed, and upgraded to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. The last few months it's been acting up, I've been having to reboot several times in the morning to get it to come up sometimes. Last Friday, I booted it as soon as I got here as usual, and it booted fine, except that the icons were missing from my taskbar. So I rebooted. When it came back up, nothing was the same. Background was different, email wasn't set up, all my defaults had changed. Apparently it lost my user profile. ALL of my settings were gone, but my data was still there. I use Thunderbird for personal email, and the program was still there, but everything else was gone. All of my old emails and my login information was gone. I had to set Outlook up like it was my first time. Fortunately, all of the Outlook data is stored on our exchange server, so I didn't lose any of my emails.
Our IT guy tried to recover my user profile from my Acronis backup, but couldn't. I tried to restore the system to the last restore point, which was Tuesday the 2nd, but that didn't work. That puzzled me, since everything was working fine up until Friday morning. Why wouldn't it restore the system back to the way it was? Anyway, I ordered a new PC, but it won't be here until the 15th (hopefully). It's taking longer, because I ordered it with Windows 7.
Until then, I've been trying to redo everything, but I've noticed a couple of weird problems. One, it doesn't remember my last folder settings now. In other words, when I used to open an existing folder (directory), and if I changed the view (say from list to large icons), it would remember that setting. Now, every time I open a folder it defaults to details view no matter what I do. It happens whether I open the folder from Windows Explorer, or from within a program (such as Photoshop).
Two, and this is incredibly annoying, Outlook won't display any images in emails, no matter who they're from. I've set it to download everything (see attached image), but it still won't. All images in emails now show up as a box with an "X" in it. But images do show up in Thunderbird, although I'm sure it's unrelated.
Any advice, thoughts, opinions, or similar experiences?