Hi,
I have a freaky problem, I’ll try to make it brief but explicit.
I had an application installed (PreEmpt) that I wanted to get rid of but it did not want to uninstall normally (file in use), so I booted to Safe Mode and completed the deleting/uninstalling. I am the only user of the Dell Inspiron 8100 on which this problem occurred, but when I signed into ‘safe mode’, of the two user accounts I have, I signed in as Administrator. When all deleting/uninstalling was complete, I booted, but when WinXP Home SP2 loaded the Desktop that displayed was as if I had booted for the very first time after doing a reinstall in Jun.?06 (M$ bliss wallpaper, the My Documents and My Recent Documents were empty, etc. Very, very few icons were visible and there were ‘clouds’ asking if I wanted to tour WinXP and the Dell Support cloud was there too.) I checked some of my files and the most recent I could find was Jun.?06. However, WinXP SP2 is completely up-to-date(?). IE7 was installed and functional ? I just installed this in early March. There was no Outlook icon available and I had to use Program Files to launch it, but as I did the install wizard deployed. Some applications were missing but the ones that were there were up-to-date.
I immediately did a Virus Scan, which was negative and PestPatrol. I have Norton GoBack, but the ONLY choice available was today(?) when you use GoBack you have to disable system restore. Does anyone have any idea what happened here?
How can I get back to my normal Desktop with my personal settings and files?