I installed the new Vista updates and they appear to have wiped out my user account. The account is still there, the password still works, but once logged on I see that it's like it's a brand new account. Everything was wiped out of My Documents. AppData
is cleaned out. The desktop only contains shared icons, and none of the personal icons I'd placed there. The start menu no longer has any of my recently executed applications. My home page was reset. And on and on and on. Everything is as if this were
a brand new account.
I can't say for sure that this was caused by the Vista updates, but it occurred after the reboot from the last update, so it seems likely. I'd just recommend you ensure you have a backup of your documents before applying these updates.
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Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker
Ouch, that's gotta hurt...
I've installed the updates so far on three Vista machines, two x86 (one of those on a domain) and one x64 and havent seen any problems yet.
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littleguru
<3 Seattle
I have also installed all the updates. I haven't had any problems.
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Jason Cox wrote:Ouch, that's gotta hurt...
I've installed the updates so far on three Vista machines, two x86 (one of those on a domain) and one x64 and havent seen any problems yet.
Was there anything weird in the Event Log?
Why yes, there is.
Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile.
DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
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Windows has backed up this user profile. Windows will automatically try to use the backup profile the next time this user logs on.
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Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.
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I don't see any "backed up" profile anywhere. The last one makes me concerned that this will now be a repeating loop.
And no, I don't expect many (any?) other people to have this issue. But since I don't know what caused it, the warning to backup first seems justified to post here. -
alwaysmc2
It's not stupid; It's advanced!
It worked fine for me as well. Did you try to restore the files with Previous Versions?
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SpongeBobSquarePants
He couldn't quite get his leg over
This is kind of weird. I installed the updates on a relative's pc. After rebooting the desktop has gone back to the default. (This person prefers the Windows classic desktop you see with the default style taskbar). All I had to do was to reset the desktop to how they like it. All data was still there though. Very odd.
I remember this happening to me once in XP. I think it was when I upgraded media player (I might be wrong). The desktop then went back to the luna theme but I didn't lose any of my data.
I guess I'm lucky that no data was lost. Still, it does pay to backup regularly (on any OS).
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CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
SpongeBobSquarePants wrote:This is kind of weird. I installed the updates on a relative's pc. After rebooting the desktop has gone back to the default. (This person prefers the Windows classic desktop you see with the default style taskbar). All I had to do was to reset the desktop to how they like it. All data was still there though. Very odd.
I remember this happening to me once in XP. I think it was when I upgraded media player (I might be wrong). The desktop then went back to the luna theme but I didn't lose any of my data.
I guess I'm lucky that no data was lost. Still, it does pay to backup regularly (on any OS).
I've hit that in XP before... something will go wrong on logoff (usually the registry's still locked for some reason) and XP will log you into a temporary user account. A restart has always cleared it up for me. -
A reboot resolved the issue. No clue where it moved the profile to in order to be able to restore it, but it appears to be back to normal.
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
wkempf wrote:A reboot resolved the issue. No clue where it moved the profile to in order to be able to restore it, but it appears to be back to normal.
It didn't move it. Your "empty" profile was a temporary one used in lieu.
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W3bbo wrote:
wkempf wrote:
A reboot resolved the issue. No clue where it moved the profile to in order to be able to restore it, but it appears to be back to normal.
It didn't move it. Your "empty" profile was a temporary one used in lieu.
C:\Users\wekempf held all of my profile before the issue. After the issue, C:\Users\wekempf was basically empty. After the reboot, C:\Users\wekempf held all of my files again. Sorry, the contents were moved somewhere. It may have all be done via junction points, but I couldn't find the missing contents before the reboot. -
I've had that happen on my Vista Premium system prior to installing the Performance and Reliability updates, but only when connecting to it remotely. A reboot always clears it up for me as well.
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Which update?
I can't install the latest vista update, it fails everytime
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mstefan
Windows SDK coders do it without a .NET
If Windows Update is choking on you, try resetting it. Open an elevated command prompt. (Go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories right-click on Command Prompt, and choose "Run as administrator".) In the command prompt window, run the following two commands
net stop wuauserv
rmdir /s C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore
Run the Registry Editor. (Go to Start -> Run, type "regedit" and press Enter.) Warning, standard disclaimers apply: Incorrect registry changes can damage your Windows installation and require reinstalling Windows or other software; be very careful when following these steps.
In the Registry Editor tree, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate.
Right-click on WindowsUpdate in the tree and choose Delete.
Back in the command prompt window, run this command:
net start wuauserv
Run Windows Update and let it do its thing. I've used this to fix a problem where it repeatedly bombed after failing on an SQL Server 2005 update. -
CodeMonkey666
Cylons.. Why debugging matters
I have had the same problem with my laptop load of Vista. It has happened three times. I was using Vista Business on our AD network at work.
I formatted the whole thing and went back to XP last week
I usually love bleeding edge stuff but Vista just kept pissing me off.Not a Vista Hater but until I get my Tablet I don’t really need it.
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