Windows suddenly reset all settings and deleted my restores
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Windows suddenly reset all settings and deleted my restores
Hi all,
I was doing some updating and uninstalling old programs on my computer tonight -- and after rebooting I came to find my desktop, start menu, installed programs, and just about everything else reset to windows defaults. As it was logging in I saw the little dialog boxes in the corner that one sees when Windows is being started for the first time. I was even greeted with the "Tour Windows XP" bubble in the system tray

I wasn't really alarmed until I opened system restore to find all of my restore points deleted. I had just made about 3 today, and since I leave my computer on overnight I was certain that I had ample automatically created when the PC was idle.
So basically: I have never seen anything like this happen before, and I would like to see if I can 'restore' my system restore points

- Thank you guys for all your expertise

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Re: Windows suddenly reset all settings and deleted my restores
I did some googling and even though I couldn't find a suggestion solution, I did find a similar problem: http://www.computing.net/answers/window ... 78640.html
Same symptoms: most programs reset, but some left how I had them before. Also their Windows desktop was completely reset.
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