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I run vista, and I woke up this morning and I had two of every folder that vista comes with. The second folder is where my computer was drawing all of its information from, and they were all empty. My desktop was missing icons, and I could not load documents correctly. My computer kept erroring, and I eventually had to restart. Now the folders are gone. This is very strange. Has anyone else ever had this happen? What can I do to prevent it? Thanks in advance.

Just for the sake of beating Krylo to the punch... Have you tried magnets directly applied to your hard drive?

I haven't had that problem before, but I think this is another proof that Vista is actually some form of demonic portal designed to eat your soul out of your head.

I'm telling ya, they've got smart. They're self aware and plotting behind our backs. Those secondary files were probably a front for it's true plans and thoughts (note how it only deleted them once it knew you were on to it).

Magnets aren't looking like such a bad idea now huh?

One of these days, we'll suggest magnets and someone will think we're serious and do it. Then again, if they do, maybe they shouldn't be operating a computer in the first place.

I do have access to a very powerful electromagnet, but I love my little tablet, I can't kill it. So this is a random happenstance, just hope it does not happen again? It happened at the worst possible time too; I was in class, a class I am fighting for a C in and I could not take notes today. Lovely.

Oh, someone else who uses a tablet! (/joy)

Though I've never heard of an error like that, it can't hurt to disable unnecessary features (assuming you have everything set to max). It doesn't look as nice, but dropping some of the visual settings and other silly things vista doesn't *need* to run will probably give it less to deal with. At the very least, it might go a little faster.

This is just from what I've seen of my friend's computer (oh god the shiny interface!), I don't use vista myself.

I had to buy a tablet for school. I have disabled just about everything I could. I might have missed some stuff though, I'm not very computer literate.

I run Vista. While this has never happened to me, there are a few things that may have caused it:

1. Did you update anything without restarting? This reduces stability.
2. Is your hard disk in the red? This causes frequent disk errors.
3. What's your Chinese zodiac animal, Chinese element/season of birth, birthstone, astrological symbol, ice cream preference, and eye color? These things all have an effect on Vista's operation, along with many other known and unknown factors.

1. I didn't update a thing
2. Not at the time but now it is in the red
3. Errr....Bear?

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Originally Posted by Naga_Feanor (Post 864073)

2. Not at the time but now it is in the red

Vista is actually really flaky about how it measures HDD space. It probably was actually in the red at the time but wasn't listed as such, or it may have jumped up there at random and thrown a disk error out of spite.

Did you delete anything recently, by the way? Try doing a defrag. This way:

1. Start > Search > cmd
2. right click cmd.exe and select Run As Administrator
3. type

Code:

defrag.exe -c -f -w -v

4. put it down for a while and do something else, or leave it overnight.

You might find a good deal of space freed up from files that didn't delete properly.

Edit: For those wondering what all those switches mean:
-c defragments all local drives
-f is needed to force the program to run with < 10% free HDD space
-w makes it do the whole drive, rather than leaving chunks greater than 64MB alone
-v activates Verbose mode, which gives frankly much more useful statistics than the piddly default report