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seems like user profile got mess up.   how many user accounts do you have?   if you only have one. Try create new user and set it as Administrator. Then login with that new user account and check My Documents properties as next step - login with new user you just created. - right click on "My Computer" - left click on "Properties" - click on "Advanced" tab - in middle section you will see users profile and click on "Settings" - left click on the line with new username - click on "Copy To" - click on "browse" - then go to C:\Documents and Settings\{your old username} and click "OK" - then click "OK" one more time to close the dialog - close everything out - logout new user - log back in with old user see it fix. you might lose those shortcuts on desktop. you may backup them before you do. backup all the documents under "My Documents" before you do just in case if you do som...

The Problem:- When you Click Start button and navigate to "All Programs",you find the menu is missing. Resolution 1:   The only way I found around it was to do a system restore to a previous date and that fixed the problem Resolution 2 : Start>Run>Regedit>ok Now navigate to the following keys:- HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell FoldersSet Start Menu value to "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu" HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders Set Common Start Menu value to "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu" Close the registry editor and restart the machine ****************************************************************************  

A user profile is a personal set of audio, visual and desktop settings based purely on the user’s choice. A user profile may vary from user to user and is indicative of the interests and personality of the user. Windows XP allows each user to make his/ her profile once (i.e. choose his/ her favorable settings) and then save this profile too. This saves time and energy as the profile once chosen is saved in the permanent storage (hard disk) and is retrieved every time the user restarts the system or logs in. Windows XP users may encounter a situation where they have a lost user profile, which means that when the user logs in to the system and his/her personal profile does not load. The following three scenarios may have occurred in such cases: 1. A user profile exists in storage but it has disappeared. 2. The user name at the Welcome screen doesn’t match with the one in the task manager 3. A user profile has been deleted accidentally. Recovering XP Deleted Or L...

UPDATED July 2008 : Please see below for updated solution to this problem Again and again I see people complain about this error message (e.g. CISCO VPN Client Software on Windows Vista) This is actually a quite easy (but annoying) thing to fix. Here's the 100% reliable method I use to fix this. In Network Connections, right-click your Cisco Systems VPN Adapter which should be disabled and enable it     Right-click your Cisco Systems VPN Adapter again, this time selecting "Diagnose", and you should get the following prompt (your adapter may be numbered different from Local Area Connection 3)   Select "Reset the network adapter ........ ", this will take a while (around 60 seconds on my laptop)   Windows will again prompt you saying the IP configuration is still invalid, ignore this and just press Cancel.  Go back to the Network Connections, right-click your VPN Virtual Adapter and Disable.  Now open Cisco VPN, and you should be able to connec...