Computer Help

[sterlingice]

Man, I couldn't find out how to do this online so I'm feeling pretty dumb right now. I'm running Windows 2000, FYI.

I'm not sure this has any relevance but this is as close as I can figure it happened. I was messing around with my Media Players because I have a bad codec for DivX on Windows Media Player and I just never bothered to fix it. But it works on ATI's Media Player so I set the default to that instead and that's the only installation/preferences change I can recall making last night.

So what happens when I boot up this morning? A lot of my desktop icons are gone, menu's lacking some things, and stuff like my Mozilla and Eudora preferences are set to their defaults.

Apparently, my old Documents and Settings folder got sent to {username}.bak and a new {username} folder popped up with all the defaults. I'm not sure how to just replace the {username} account with it. Any ideas?

SI

[Franklinnoble]

Bear in mind that I haven't used Win2k in a while, so this might not be the most accurate set of instructions, but here goes:

Right click on "My Computer" Select "Properties" Click the "User Profiles" tab.

You should see a list of user profiles (essentially, all your settings) listed there. Select the name of the profile that has the settings you want, click "Copy to" and copy it to "documents and settings\*username*"

There's one catch.

You can't do this while you're logged in as the user you're copying to or from. Just for safety's sake, I'd suggest you create an all-new user ID, make it an Administrator, log in once, log out, log back in with the f-ed up user id, and then copy the old profile into the brand new user profile.