Shane, thanks for reply. I had this "thing" completely go down. I did a system restore 4 times and each time this "thing" got worse.I"ll never do another system restore. It lost files and folders, DEP got involved, everything including Wexplorer quit. Funny thing, I could open your fix but when I tried to run it, it went crazy, giving different screens and going crazy with registry screens. I'll never do another restore. So, I did a backup and then a recovery. I spent an ungodly amount of hours on this thing. I could not get back here (Torch quit), so I could not do as you suggested. It is working now, but I have some issues. The main problem I am facing is I seem to have lost many programs, pictures etc. I know they are here because I watched installation and saw many of them being put in. I believe I know why they are not showing up. Maybe you could help me retreive them. First, I bought this "thing" from my brother. He had login set as user Thomas. When I got machine, I set myself up as administrator. What I did not know was each time I installed or other applications, all were going in as User/Thomas. Everything that was done under Rodney is now on my cpu, but those uinder Thomas are not. When in the set up after restore, I did not set up any users so Thomas stuff is not showing. I know they were included, because I saw many of them going in from the recovery disks. If I set him up as a standard user, will his files and folders be accessable? Or is there some other way to retrieve them? Maybe I should start a new topic on this? I have lost some real valuable stuff if I cannot get these things back. Thanks, Rod
