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Old 19th Jul 2009, 15:57
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Win XP Home Request for Help Please

Hello folks
Please could I ask your collectiveness about a problem with Win XP Home Log on.
I have been running perfectly well with no viral or operating problems until this morning when I went to log in to my user account. On Logging in the boot took ages and eventually the screen came up as a a mono colour screen (no picture) No shortcuts or any of my personalisation, I can access windows explorer but I can't change any settings. eg I tried to change folder view to allow hidden files but the settings will not hold. If I go to control panel and try to change the view to classic it won't let me etc etc. My documents is there but with nothing in it. After some probing I have discovered that my user account is now somehow pointed to c:/documents and settings/Temp. If I try to restore the default to My Docs it reverts back to this folder and will not allow me to manually enter the correct folder.
Other user accounts work correctly still.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to reconnect the UAC to the correct my documents folder??
Thanks in advance
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