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A variation of this was posted earlier but I couldn't fully understand the solution so I am asking again. When I logged into windows 7 earlier today it was looking rather different. The desktop theme had disappeared. The icons on start menu were gone. When I started firefox it was as if I was running for the first time. My Deluge (bit torrent client) was empty. Next I found there was nothing in the My Documents folder or My Videos folder.
I fixed the FF issue by manually copying the "old" profile to the new one that was created. I found that in documents library the properties referred to a "C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Documents" folder rather than the old C:\Users\myself\ folder.
So I know that my windows profile is corrupted and the prior post refers to this page http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-change-user-profile-default-location-in-windows-7/ but I don't follow what I need to change in the registry entry to fix this.
Is recreating a new profile the same as creating a new User? By user profile directory do you mean the folder under C:\Users? The C:\users\Myself folder is still there with all contents intact.
Yes, I am pretty sure that I have logged into a temporary profile.Thanks – Charles Leviton – 2013-12-04T17:05:08.897
Let's say I create a new user called "NewMe", I guess it's pointless to copy the contents of my current user directory C:\users\myself over to C:\users\NewMe, right? Since there is some kind of corruption in the contents of c:\users\myself.
Can I selectively copy some of the subfolders? – Charles Leviton – 2013-12-05T03:24:24.410
Thanks, that worked fine. only the launch bar wasn't the way it was earlier but other aspects like desktop b/g, program settings and all were recovered. appreciate your help – Charles Leviton – 2013-12-06T14:43:46.207