Location of files that do not appear on the desktop

Yesterday I had problems connecting to my computer and when I finally got on my desktop items and favorites were missing. I did some work and saved a PDF file, but also an office document. Today, I have a lot on as usual and my old desktop items were there but not two points from yesterday. How can I find them? I have windows XP.

It looks like a semi corrupted user profile.

When first had problems to open a session, it's because Windows had problems reading your profile.  Finally, he gave up load your profile and created a * temporary * profile that you can use.  When he does this, your desktop, Favorites, and nothing inside your folder items 'My Documents' (among others) stayed with the profile failed.  Then, you worked and managed to create your pdf and Office that were then saved in your temporary profile document.  When you need to be disconnected, your temporary profile has been removed and with it the new file that you just created.  Later, I tried to log in again and this time he has managed to read your original profile, and you had to get back to where you were less files that have been deleted with your temporary profile.

Corrupt profiles are usually accompanied or caused by a corrupted file system.  Your disc is marginal.  It can sometimes be read and sometimes not.  To resolve this issue until it's worse, follow the instructions in the following article to recover the corrupted profile.  Usually it will be to create a new user and then transfer your old profile (or as much as possible) to your profile again, clean.

"How to recover damaged Windows XP user profile"
  <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/555473 >

After recovering, you must run a "chkdsk" with the /F or/r option (or both options if using the graphical user interface) to find the problems and fix your file system.  Note that this will be at the next reboot of the system, runs before Windows loading completely, cannot be interrupted and could take more than a few hours to perform.  Do it when your computer is not necessary for a while...

"How to Perform Disk error in Windows XP check"
  <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315265 >

P.S. If you don't have a current backup created, consider this a wake up call to update your backups.

HTH,
JW

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