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  3. September 2006

Re: Any new viruses that corrupt the user profiles?

Bummer.  The asy fix failed with "(cyclic redundancy check)"

Bill wrote:

Booth Martin wrote:
Last night I shut down my laptop. It said it had new updates to install, so I let it do that.
This morning when I turned it said my profiles were corrupted and gave me a default profile which means all my settings are gone. 

Any ideas of what happened, or what will fix it?

don't know what caused it, but here's a method on recovering:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=555473

That link also mentions a more manual method of recovering.

Bill

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