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    Holy smokes, just did windows update and lost all personal settings

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by jeep364, Aug 14, 2011.

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    jeep364 Notebook Consultant

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    Just ran a windows update restart and I login and see the same start screen and icons from when I got the laptop new from dell. My data is still there but only appears when i hunt it down under C:/Users/etc. Lost all personal data on chrome, my desktop, etc.

    And no windows restore? :wth: That should still be there.

    It looks like a new user was setup but its still the same as it was...

    It has everything directed to a user 'TEMP' but connected to my username.
     
    jeep364, Aug 14, 2011
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    jeep364 Notebook Consultant

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    Well I guess what happened is windows opened up a TEMP user account/desktop after it restarted.

    After another restart through safe mode everything actually came back to normal (my user profile) and the TEMP folders under C:/Users disappeared.
     
    jeep364, Aug 14, 2011
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    wiiwok Newbie

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    I just ran the latest batch of Windows updates and my M11x R1 Win 7 x64 Ultimate install is toast.

    Can't roll back to a restore point, system recovery doesn't work, etc.

    Looks like I'll be doing a re-install.

    @#$@%$&!&!@#&@!$&
     
    wiiwok, Aug 19, 2011
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    froogle Notebook Evangelist

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    Microsoft - where did you want to go today?
     
    froogle, Aug 19, 2011
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