Files just....disappeared

So I just traded out my year old Gateway laptop (which stopped working
for a new Dell Inspiron. I've never been particularly impressed wit
Dell but the Tech Guy at Best Buy assured me the quality of thei
laptops had improved. Anyway, it came with Windows Vista Home Premium.
Since it was a Dell it came loaded with a stardock with mac-like icon
instead of desktop icons. I like it so I customized it with the icon
for the programs I use most, stared typing up notes for medical schoo
with MS Word, and started downloading music files. So the other day
notice strangely that the dock had reverted back to the original icon
that were present when I first got the computer. Then I noticed all o
the files downloaded/saved to the harddrive had disappeared. So I star
anew adding files and replacing most of the old ones. Then suddenl
yesterday the dock changes again back to how it was...customized and th
files that I originally had reappeared but now the files I saved when i
changed the first time are gone.

So what is going on? Is this some kind of glitch in the OS? Is ther
something wrong with the actual computer? Can I somehow get my file
back? Thanks for the help

--
notyetafatkid

Windows does not come with a "stardock" feature, so I would contact Dell for
support with this item and/or any problems it might be causing.

"notyetafatkid" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> So I just traded out my year old Gateway laptop (which stopped working)
> for a new Dell Inspiron. I've never been particularly impressed with
> Dell but the Tech Guy at Best Buy assured me the quality of their
> laptops had improved. Anyway, it came with Windows Vista Home Premium.
> Since it was a Dell it came loaded with a stardock with mac-like icons
> instead of desktop icons. I like it so I customized it with the icons
> for the programs I use most, stared typing up notes for medical school
> with MS Word, and started downloading music files. So the other day I
> notice strangely that the dock had reverted back to the original icons
> that were present when I first got the computer. Then I noticed all of
> the files downloaded/saved to the harddrive had disappeared. So I start
> anew adding files and replacing most of the old ones. Then suddenly
> yesterday the dock changes again back to how it was...customized and the
> files that I originally had reappeared but now the files I saved when it
> changed the first time are gone.
>
> So what is going on? Is this some kind of glitch in the OS? Is there
> something wrong with the actual computer? Can I somehow get my files
> back? Thanks for the help.
>
>
> --
> notyetafatkid

Thanks for the reply.

The issue isn't with the stardock persay, I think the issue is mor
symptomatic of something going wrong with windows. Honestly I coul
care less what about the change in stardock icons. I just noticed
correlation between the disappearance of the files on my harddrive an
the change in stardock icons

--
notyetafatkid