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Windows settings reset
Name: nbalaji87 Date: February 17, 2006 at 08:27:14 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Turion 64 Product: Compaq m2000 laptop
Comment:
Hey everyone,
I've got kind of a strange problem, about a month ago I downloaded Windowblinds and decided to use the free trial for a month, everything worked smoothly until the trial expired, now whenever I restart my computer a whole bunch of my personal setting are restored to the defaults as if I just bought the computer and all my programs like Windows Media player, Word, Excel... act as if I am running them for the first time. All my files and programs are still intact though. When I log on after I restart I get this messsage that states that windows could not find my profile and it uses the default. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
Name: XpUser Date: February 17, 2006 at 08:30:48 Pacific
Reply:
Try use some early System Restore points back to the time before you installed the free trial version of Windowblinds.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: asknerd Date: February 17, 2006 at 13:48:48 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like your HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT might be acting up. Did you try and remove the windowblinds software ? Another thing to check is your system clock, sometimes if your settings got goofy in a crash, they can go back to like 1999, which tricks the computer into thinking that all of the programs are new - this was a common problem with win95, but not as much with XP. Finally, you should try running a decent reg clean program like registrypatrol.com which will scan your system for any errors ( free to do ) and chances are it might pick up what is wrong.
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