Ghaaa!!! I hate Windows!!!!!!
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Topic: Ghaaa!!! I hate Windows!!!!!!
Posted By: .Ryan
Subject: Ghaaa!!! I hate Windows!!!!!!
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:04am
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So I turn on my laptop this morning and I get a little window saying it
can't load my user settings. I push ok, being that it's the only button
there, and go on. I log in to find the generic grassy hill back ground
and blue start bar. Then I go to firefox to find all of my bookmarks
gone, not to mention my extensions. Grr right? Then, just because I'm
fearing the worst, I go to my docs. All gone. All my pics, all my apps,
all my documents, everything. About the only thing I haven't lost is my
programs. I'm suing Bill Gates. Edit: AHH!! I just went to one note to find all of my freakin notes and user settings gone too!! *Runs off to punch things* -------------  |
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:07am
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Don't run off to punch things. What you need to punch is right there beside you. Punch it with the ground from about thirty stories. ------------- 
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:17am
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please tell me you backed your stuff up like on a dvd or something...
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:26am
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My notes are printed but the rest of the stuff is gone. Most of it
wasn't extreemly important but it still really really sucks to lose all
of it.... Ya know what else sucks? All that stuff is still probably on my hard drive but I just can't see it because windows sees me as a different user.... ------------- |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:30am
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i hear ya. try having an external 320 GB hard drive going dead from the
standpoint of the master boot record gets corrupted. meaning, your data
is there, but the interface is saying "data, data?!? we don't have no
stinking data!!" that was a good movie btw. anywho, i got all the stuff back(it was half full) after using a drive utility tool. it always sucks to lose stuff. -------------
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:34am
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I wonder if there's any way to get MY stuff back....grr...This is the
second time I've lost my pics too. I tried burning a bunch of pics I
took over about three years a couple of months ago on my other comp and
for some reason Nero didn't like it. Well, appearently since Nero
didn't like it windows didn't like it so my entire "my pictures" fold
was emptied out....
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Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:37am
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You should still be able to recover your documents. Browse from "My computer" to C:\documents and settings\your normal username\your normal username's documents" and you should be able to get them.
If settings refuse to load its generally a problem in the registry with those settings, it loaded you to a default user account and not yours, so it isn't showing you your normal "My Docs" folder. Likewise, the things in your "My Doc.s" folder aren't likely to be damaged. |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 12:02pm
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Dazed, you are now my new favorite person. Thanks man, I found everything I was missing, including my onenote stuff...You trock. Just wish I could get my firefox stuff back...I wonder if I can fix the registry screw up and log into my good account.... ------------- |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 12:13pm
| Try googling for fixes. This can't be a terribly uncommon problem. |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 2:15pm
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try this...
my comp/local disk C/documents and settings then look for your old user name. might be under "owner" if its XP... if its there you can get ur stuff back. also you can search for folder names. check to see if your HD space is still being used. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Tworzydlo_Motyl
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 2:18pm
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Hahahaha! ------------- Goodbye. :) |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 2:22pm
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merc, did that, got my stuff back, I just wish I could get my firefox
bookmarks back....I can't find them in a folder or anything...anyone
know where they're stored?
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 2:25pm
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i dono about firefox or what it even is. im guessing its a web browser...
with whatever i have its saved in docs and settings/username/ favorites. it has a big gold star as its simble. if not look in firefox folder in program files. edit you could also check your cookies and history if you use the sites oftin enough they might be there ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 2:56pm
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Did you restart your computer? Please tell me you tried to restart? That would usually fix this. Your firefox settings would be in your application data folder, just copy it to whatever your new profile is if you made one. ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 4:21pm
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Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 4:23pm
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Firefox does that to me about once a month. After learning from losing my bookmarks 5 times, I put them all in a Word document. ------------- 
http://www.freewebs.com/hazedinsanity - http://www.freewebs.com/hazedinsanity |
Posted By: paintballu
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 5:00pm
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get a linux live cd to go file searching, its your best chance. I would suggest Gentoo ------------- 
my xchat died...... no more irc :( |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 5:07pm
| See my sig VVV |
Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 5:14pm
------------- I need a new Sig... |
WGP guy2 wrote:Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 5:18pm
I've been over the whole linux switch sooo many times. There were a lot of good reasons I switched. It was inevitable unless I wanted to buy a windows CD, linux turned out to be a lot faster, no viruses, no spyware, no adware, no freezing, no stupid errors, ect. |
Posted By: Fat Stalin
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 5:54pm
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Crashes happen to all operating systems, albeit OSX and Linux crash
less, they are also less mainstream and therefore less succeptable to
viruses, spyware, etc. Windows is targeted because many people who are
not knowledgable with it use it. You should also back your stuff up every once in a while. Speaking of that, I should do it right now. ------------- 
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 6:01pm
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Is there anyway to remove data from a damaged cd? I have tried to do it before but all that happens is my computer locks up. I usually go into my computer, right click cdr drive, right click on the file, copy, and then paste where i want it to go, but it just freezes. ------------- 
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Posted By: TommyGun007
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 6:04pm
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Apple > Microsoft
Macintosh > Windows Steve Jobs > Bill Gates ------------- HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT ME! I"M COOL ON THE INTERNETS! |
Posted By: Tworzydlo_Motyl
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 10:59pm
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I kinda like Apple computers but I still think Microsoft pwns them. C'mon now, you can't even right-click. You have to drag CD icons to the Trash Can to burn them. Macs are just silly. And they have just as many problems as Windows. ------------- Goodbye. :) |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:05pm
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.....dot dot dot...... ------------- 
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:07pm
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Pfft...while trying to set up a RAID array i accidently erased my 120gb hdd and 4gb hdd. Completely. That sucked so much. ------------- 
sporx wrote: well...ya i prolly will be a virgin till i'm at least 30. |
Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 17 October 2005 at 11:42pm
I use windows, and I still say ....dot dot dot..... ------------- 
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Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 8:08am
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.Ryan, the direct path to your firefox bookmarks is:
C:\Documents and Settings\Your username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\kaiak5lm.default\bookmarks.bak or bookmarks.html And I'm not sure if "kaiak51m.default" will be named the same on your machine either, it sounds like a variable folder name more than a fixed one. Either way, it was the only folder under "profiles" on my machine, so you should just be able to drill down to whatever is there, and see the file inside. |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 10:01am
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cool, thanks dazed. Anyway, microsoft kinda redeemed themselves. I went on their live chat thing last night and the woman on the other end stayed on there with me for like 45 minutes trying to get this fixed. We ended up just making a new user account and copying everything over. That didn't help with Firefox but yeah, dazed fixed me up there. Just the fact that it happened still says a lot about windows but yeah... BTW, on linux, how much of the software that I use now could I use on linux? I'm guessing no microsoft products and basically no games which would make it impractical for me. I'm a lot less geeky than I used to be though so who knows... ------------- |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 10:09am
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Ok, now that I have my user name fixed and all Firefox desided it doesn't want to work. It opens but it wont load anything. It worked on safemode once but now that doesn't even work. When I looked at the source code for the page it wont load it says it's loaded google. I know it's not my connection cause IE and Opera works but I can't get firefox to work for anything. I tried completely removing it from my system and redownloading it and reinstalling it but it just wont work. I don't freakin get it.... ------------- |
Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 3:30pm
------------- I need a new Sig... |