[dba-Tech] Lost messages and settings

The Start menu is like a directory list of shortcuts in that folder isn't 
it? I don't tihink it's a registry thing. Can't explain the e-mail situation 
though. Do you maybe have another mail file lurking someplace? Were you 
signed on as a different user at any time? Doesn't it store a lot of those 
settings on a per user basis? Mail too. I'd do a file search for any files 
modified or created since last week and see if something is hiding in 
another folder someplace - be sure to search hidden folders too.

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com





>From: "Steven W. Erbach" <serbach at new.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: <dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Lost messages and settings
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:55:25 -0500
>
>Dear Group,
>
>I've lost about 3 1/2 days of e-mail and a number of settings have been
>reverted back to what they were last Friday on my Win 2000 Pro workstation.
>For example, there's a gap in the messages I've received from the OT forum.
>The messages end at 7:55 pm Friday and start up at 12:39 pm today. I'm
>missing all the messages between those two dates.
>
>I changed my signature yesterday to a quote from Jerry Pournelle. But now
>the default signature is back to what it was last week...and the new
>signature isn't included on the list of signatures any more under Options 
>in
>Outlook Express. It's just gone.
>
>I installed Office XP Developer either Thursday or Friday last week
>including the voice-activated features. So when I opened Word, Outlook
>Express, or IE the MS voice activated toolbar thingie would pop up on
>screen. That's gone, too.
>
>Some of my ZoneAlarm settings seem to have been forgotten.
>
>My suspicion is this: before I installed the Office XP Developer suite late
>last week I made a backup of the registry. It looks to me as if something
>has re-activated that backup registry.
>
>But why would I be missing all of those e-mail messages? It isn't just OT
>messages, it's everything in that 3 1/2 day period. And if the registry was
>somehow restored to what it was, then why do I still see the XP 
>applications
>on the Start | Programs menu?
>
>Any idea of what might have happened to me?
>
>Regards...
>                  `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·->  Steve Erbach
>                                               Scientific Marketing
>                                               Neenah, WI
>                                               920-969-0504
>
>
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