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Old January 1st 06, 01:32 AM posted to alt.windows-me,microsoft.public.windowsme.general,microsoft.public.windowsme.setup,microsoft.public.windowsme.software
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Default WinME profile problem

System Restore to a point before the botched upgrade. Then go thoroughly
through the steps for ZA at their site.
Heirloom, old and almost next
year

"Chris" wrote in message
.. .
Just had a very weird thing happen to my WinME system, and I need help to
recover. I removed ZoneAlarm 6.0 in order to do a "Clean Install" of 6.1,
as it was exhibiting setup problems, and wouldn't complete an upgrade
either.

When I re-booted after removing ZA and logged in, my profile was
overwritten as if I had never logged in before. IE needed setup, as did
Outlook Express, etc, etc.

When I go to \\windows\profiles my old profile folder is still there, with
all the desktop shortcuts, etc as they were before, but WinME isn't using
them.

It hasn't created a new profile folder either that I can see, isn't using
the "Default User" profile, looks like it may be defaulting to the "All
Users" settings.

Any ideas how to get it back to using the existing profile settings?

HELP!!!

Chris