My comp. recently froze up. I turned it off and back on and it froze in the welcome screen of windows xp. After trying to reboot or restore through windows, I used a manufacturer’s restore cd and did a very simple restore that said it would do the least amount of damage between the 3 restore options. After this my computer worked very slowly and I could not access many programs due to not having admin privileges. I tried to run a antivirus scan but could not open that program either. I rebooted in safe mode and could not run a system restore to a previous date because I was not the admin, even though there is only one profile on the comp. Basically it comes down to me having important files on my desktop and now I have a feeling I lost them. I don’t care what I have to do to the comp itself but I really need those files back because like a dumb*** I didn’t back them up on a regular basis. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.