Windows XP Update and ?

• Flobo Recovery Home

Gee supose they will have discussion groups and people interested in using and mainting old computers with windows operating systems? Say 50 years from now.

Not up to speed on XP home yet. Will put that off as long as I can to save on both $ and frustration.

I will offer my dumb suggestion tough. Try the FIND command in the START menue. Look at the top level ( C:/ ). The XP installation may have keept your old favorites under a different path. If this is the case all you have to do is locate them.

Also you may have to move your self up to a system admisistrator level to be able to find everything or be at least sure that you are using the same windiows login and that you used previously. The newer windows systems will hide some of the files that belong to users with different logins. I think favorites are one one of the personalzed files that gets hidden between different windows users so each user can customize them they they want.

Try microsoft support if all else fails.

Good luck, At least you won't get your hands dirty.

D.D.Post

Norton Utilities (depending on what version... some of the older versions have compatibility issues with Windows XP) should be able to do what you wanted if it were installed before you deleted the files.

I know you said the files were only your favorites and such, but if they're really important to you, there is a program called OnTrack Easy Recovery Pro. I've used this program to recover files from hard drives that have been formatted over and over and even with different file systems. It's kind of a last resort because of the price you'll need to pay for it, but if you did install it, it's important to avoid installing it on the same drive as the one you are trying to recover data from because of the same reason Clooney stated. You don't want to overwrite the areas on your hard drive that contained the files.

Good luck!

Hans