Rolling back XP??
 

Hiya,

I have just had a friend off the phone who is in a spot of bother....he has an essay due in a couple of days and cant access his laptop.

It seems someone gave his daughter some advice on how to stop spyware and she changed some settings somewhere- he is not sure if this caused the problem or not.

Anyway, when windows starts up he sees two profiles as normal, his and his daughters. When he tries to log on his desktop appears briefly and then a notice comes up that he is logging off. The same thing happens when his daughter tries to log on!

Now I am thinking there is a way that he can rollback to before all this happened, or to reset all the settings without losing all his data. He says that he does not have the actuall copy of XP he has........ding ding a recovery disc.....now what experiance has people got with these discs can you usually save the documents ?

Alternatlively any other ideas?

Re: Rolling back XP??
 

Have you tried booting in safe mode and doing a system restore ?

Re: Rolling back XP??
 

start up in safe mode,continually press F8 key when pc is booting,you will have the option to start in safe mode only do this.
Navigate to start all programs accessories system tools system restore.Restore to previous date and go back a day before the problem

EDIT Simon beat me but went into a lot less detail ;)

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^^^ HAH Beat you :D

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^^^^^ no destructions though ;)

3 in a row and one deleted lmao

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Ask the question first .... then give destruction if they are needed ..... PAH Amateurs :D

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PAH humbug ;)

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TOP Answers!!

Will give it a go later!

Re: Rolling back XP??
 

I once had a similar problem with I attempted when I was a novice to setup a autologon program.

Could be that? I agree with the Zingle though :tu:

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And Simon ;) :D