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mrskrabitz
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      11-25-2009


Please tell me I can find my files... PLEASE...

So I went to bed last night and Microsoft sent an update. I woke this
morning, logged in and my desktop appeared to have been reset. Upon
further investigation, I find that all my files are GONE... music,
photos, outlook .pst..... everything.... it's like Vista has been
recently loaded onto my computer... gone gone gone... everything. I did
a search for windows.old, nothing. Can I roll back the update? Will that
do anything? PLEASE HELP!

Thank you so much in advance!

Susan


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      11-25-2009

Before updates are done, Vista writes a restore point. Roll the syste
back to that restore point

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      11-26-2009
Which Update are you talking about

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"mrskrabitz" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Please tell me I can find my files... PLEASE...
>
> So I went to bed last night and Microsoft sent an update. I woke this
> morning, logged in and my desktop appeared to have been reset. Upon
> further investigation, I find that all my files are GONE... music,
> photos, outlook .pst..... everything.... it's like Vista has been
> recently loaded onto my computer... gone gone gone... everything. I did
> a search for windows.old, nothing. Can I roll back the update? Will that
> do anything? PLEASE HELP!
>
> Thank you so much in advance!
>
> Susan
>
>
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> mrskrabitz


 
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      11-26-2009

unfortuntatly, I have never had system restore work successfullly...
have in the past gone to run system restore (in xp and vista) selected
date, and run it only to say it cannot do that. So I don't trust syste
restore

I don't know what happened, but when I went to the C drive and checke
under user, my files and documents were all there. I have since backe
up everything on my external hard drive... such fun!!

Thank you so much for the help

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f/fgeorge
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      11-27-2009
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:34:55 -0600, mrskrabitz
<> wrote:

>
>unfortuntatly, I have never had system restore work successfullly... I
>have in the past gone to run system restore (in xp and vista) selected a
>date, and run it only to say it cannot do that. So I don't trust system
>restore.
>
>I don't know what happened, but when I went to the C drive and checked
>under user, my files and documents were all there. I have since backed
>up everything on my external hard drive... such fun!!!
>
>Thank you so much for the help!


One Touch external hard drives are great for backups as are programs
like Acronis. Manually restoring is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE B??T!!
 
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mrskrabitz
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      11-27-2009

:Peter,

The updates that installed that night are as follows:

UPDATE FOR WINDOWS VISTA (KB973687)
UPDATE FOR WINDOWS VISTA (KB976098)
UPDATE FOR WINDOWS VISTA (KB976470)
UPDATE FOR MICROSOFT XML CORE SERVICES 4.0 SERVICE PACK 2 (KB973688)

I started the install before going to bed and when I woke the next
morning and logged on, it was as if I had just load Vista over xp, bad
bad bad... and very scary...

Happy Holidays!
Susan

Peter Foldes;1194724 Wrote:
> Which Update are you talking about
>
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> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "mrskrabitz" <> wrote in message
> news:...> > >
> > >
> > > Please tell me I can find my files... PLEASE...
> > >
> > > So I went to bed last night and Microsoft sent an update. I woke this
> > > morning, logged in and my desktop appeared to have been reset. Upon
> > > further investigation, I find that all my files are GONE... music,
> > > photos, outlook .pst..... everything.... it's like Vista has been
> > > recently loaded onto my computer... gone gone gone... everything. I

> > did
> > > a search for windows.old, nothing. Can I roll back the update? Will

> > that
> > > do anything? PLEASE HELP!
> > >
> > > Thank you so much in advance!
> > >
> > > Susan
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > mrskrabitz > >



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mrskrabitz
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      11-27-2009

Perhaps, but I am so glad to have all my files... SO GLAD!!!

f/fgeorge;1195103 Wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:34:55 -0600, mrskrabitz
> <> wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > >unfortuntatly, I have never had system restore work successfullly... I
> > >have in the past gone to run system restore (in xp and vista) selected

> > a
> > >date, and run it only to say it cannot do that. So I don't trust

> > system
> > >restore.
> > >
> > >I don't know what happened, but when I went to the C drive and checked
> > >under user, my files and documents were all there. I have since backed
> > >up everything on my external hard drive... such fun!!!
> > >
> > >Thank you so much for the help! > >

>
> One Touch external hard drives are great for backups as are programs
> like Acronis. Manually restoring is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE B??T!!



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