… and practically all user-profile related stuff after (or sometimes even without) updating in Windows Vista.<\/p>\n
Firstly, lemme just say that I hate Windows Vista with a passion. Imagine logging in during the morning, ready to start your grueling day at work, and the you see that your desktop looks like it was factory-reset. Ugh. Gone are your files, shortcuts, and other thingamajigs. Gone are your start menu customizations, your internet browser bookmarks, and your mail client settings! Argh! It’s irritating is what it is.<\/p>\n
Whatever, now that that’s out of the way, here is one way to recover the disappearing desktop files and other customizations with regards to your user profile:<\/p>\n
\u2460 Open the Registry Editor. Start \u2181ERun \u2181Etype the command below:<\/p>\n
\nregedit\n<\/pre>\n\u2461 Press enter. The Registry Editor window will open.<\/p>\n
\u2462 Navigate to the following location in the registry:<\/p>\n
\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\ProfileList\\\n<\/pre>\n\u2463 There is one registry key for each user profile. To check if a user profile is corrupted, there are three things worth checking:<\/p>\n
a) User profile registry keys usually end with a numerical value. If by some chance you find your user profile ending with a “.bad” or “.bak”, for example, it means it’s corrupt. You can rename it (delete the “.bad” or “.bak” part).<\/p>\n
b) Click on the user profile registry key in question, check the RefCount value. Set it to 0 (zero).<\/p>\n
c) Check the State value. Set it to 0 (zero) as well.<\/p>\n
\u2464 Either log off the user profile or restart the computer.<\/p>\n
I did the above steps and now my settings are all intact again — until the next Windows Vista update, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… and practically all user-profile related stuff after (or sometimes even without) updating in Windows Vista. Firstly, lemme just say …<\/p>\n