What you are showing in #3 is an error getting an image out of an htm file (ie a saved website, not just any old picture). Find an ordinary picture that you have saved, double click it and see what happens. If you can't find one then search *.jpg and you are sure to find one in My Pictures or somewhere. It would be interesting to know if this problem is affecting all .jpg's or just website saves. DerekW

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A friend of mine deleted a User account and had the same thing happen - I tried helping him recover from the mess that resulted, several days after he had done that. Apparently when you delete a User account in Windows XP, it also deletes all the personal files associated with that account that are in certain folders - everything in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\(USER NAME) and all it's subfolders (subdirectories), including My Documents, My Pictures, etc. You are actually warned that will happen when you attempt to delete the account but the warning is rather vague. When the files are deleted, the contents of the files are still there on the hard drive, but file allocation table entry for the file has been deleted and the space the file occupies has been designated as being available for any data to use that space the files occupy. If you use some utility that can recover (e.g. undelete or unerase) the deleted file before something has written data overtop the space it occupies, the file will be successfully undeleted. The less time between when you deleted the files and when you try to recover them, the better success you will have. However, if something has written data over part of the file, or if the file was originally in many pieces (fragmented) and there is a problem finding all the pieces, you may end up with a restored but corrupted file, and some files that cannot be recovered at all. I was able to recover most of his document files for that User account, which tend to be smaller and in one piece, but most of the image files, mostly jpegs, which tend to be larger and in many pieces, were corrupted. I tried a few freeware utilities and one paid *.jpeg, *.gif, etc. repair utility but had very little success with those files. In most cases the thumbnail image looked okay, but the image file could not be restored. If someone else has copies of some of the image files, such as they were sent to or came from others in or attached to email, you may be able to get some of the images from those sources. There may also be copies of files sent with email somewhere else on the hard drive if they were not saved under C:\Documents and Settings\(USER NAME) and all it's subfolders.

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