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Lapatop mini Disaster

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I booted it up this morning and guess what......

The Desktop has gone ie back to some form of "new laptop" state, except for Programs :shock:

The Background is a now an MS Default type of thing.
The Task Bar doesn't have Prog's that I have pined to it.
Firefox has no Boookmarks :shock: :evil:
GreaseMonkey etc have gone :evil: :evil:

Does anyone have any idea what has happened?
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What's the operating system? Windows 10?

If everything is working correctly apart from having lost your personalisations, it almost sounds like you're logged in as a different user?
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Hmmm, good point - I'll get out of it and try again, but it is Pwd protected, with just the one pwd etc....
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:oops: :oops: :oops:

How did that happen? :shock:
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Was that the problem then? :lol:

At least it's fixed :mrgreen:
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Mav3rick wrote:Was that the problem then? :lol:

At least it's fixed :mrgreen:
It doesn't happen when drinkled or hungover :?

And it is hardly "secure" :? :shock: :evil:
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Blame it on Windows 8-)

To be fair I've not had many issues with Windows 10, nor even that many with 7 (I skipped 8). The versions before that you always had to be tweaking something or fix some setting but I think the only issue I've had with Windows 10 was on a fairly old laptop where the updates kept installing a driver that slowed the HDD down to a crawl.

I had to work out how to disable auto-updates on that one machine, but apart from that things have generally been pretty good (once you configure all the right privacy settings anway).
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I've had a desktop that could occasionally boot into a temporary profile with skinned down programs rather than my 'proper' profile, that sounds like what you have there. Reboot solved it.
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Must have just failed to log 'you' in and then just carried on booting up anyway.

Maybe it just needs some coffee......
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murf wrote:Must have just failed to log 'you' in and then just carried on booting up anyway.

Maybe it just needs some coffee......
I was drinking coffee - maybe it was jealous?

When I boot it, it goes to a login screen ie needing password, but is was a full boot (I think), but it did shut sown quite quickly......
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