access to the files compressed after disk clean

I have Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 SP3. Two nights ago, I ran Disk Clean Up and Defrag to improve speed. I used compress old files for the first time. Tonight I tried to access certain personal records and documents and they went. When I run a search for them, they are not accessible and are moved to the folder of My Documents and Settings or gone completely. I can only assume that this is due to the use "compress old files". How to access these compressed files?

You say that you are missing a lot of files and folders...

Compressed file always appears in a Windows search and will be in a default blue color.

If you think the specific name of some of the files you are missing or part of the name, see if they find themselves in a search for Windows and if they do, where they are.  Adjust the search with more advanced options and tick the boxes in system folders search, search hidden files and folders, hidden files and folders, and search subfolders (this way it will look everywhere).

Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the desktop, then the (Local Disk (C). assuming that XP is installed on your C drive

Below, you should see the Documents and Settings folder, open then, and you will see a folder for each user on your system (and perhaps some that you do not recognize).  Each user has a folder under Documents and Settings.

Double-click the folder associated with your user name (for example, Andrea) and you will see a My Documents folder that belongs to you.  Look in here and see what you can see if you understand how it works...  Look in my pictures, my videos, my music, etc and see if you see one of your items.

Then go back up to the Documents and Settings folder and open the folder associated with the next user (even if you don't recognize it) and look in the Documents folder for this user (for example the Documents of Jose) and search there and see if you can locate your missing documents.  Repeat for all users folders Documents and see if you can find your stuff.

I can't imagine what happened to your stuff, but thinking that perhaps your XP user profile has been corrupted somehow and when that happens, XP login with an account that works will record and you get connected, but this new account will have all the documents in it since they'll be in the Documents folder for another user whose profile corrupt (maybe).
If this is the case, you can fix it, but you should see if you can find your stuff first.

Anywho, use Windows Search to search for specific files or even wildcards as type names and see if you can determine if the files are actually missing or are just in other places when you are looking.

I use the word "stuff" a lot today for a reason but that is my style of back.

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