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Hi Steve
True, but he said "but most of my desktop applicatons are missing"  once he gets 
them back he can play with the SAM file, two backups on the HD repair folder and 
config folder but it's always a long shot, playing with the SAM..




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On Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 7:53 am, Steve Dunn wrote:

>Dex - using system.alt won't make any difference to his profile!

>

>Winston - have you checked the contents of the Administrator and Administrator.bak 

>profiles. When there's a corrupt profile, windows creates a new one, usually called 

>the same as old one with a .xxx extension (often .001, 002 etc). You can usually 

>retrieve the My documents, favourites, start menu and desktop items and email from 

>the corrupt profile and copy into new. If the old profile isn't actually there, 
it 

>suggests a filestore corruption has occurred (windows doesn't delete corrupt profiles) 

>- in which case I'd run chkdsk c: /f from command prompt (and ask it to run on next 

>restart).

>

>If none of this any use, please post back for more suggestions.

>

> 

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