Lost files from My Documents in Windows XP

We had a service technician come in our House on July 4, to solve wireless problems we take.  We had not used the pc desktop fine until recently and discovered that everything is out of My Documents.  I spoke to technology and he says that he did nothing that would have affected this folder.  I tried the system restore, but have learned since that would not help.  I'm positive, that the files are there somewhere on the hard drive.  Any suggestions on how I could find them and bring them back?

By default the My Documents folder is stored in the folder of the user
C:\Documents and Settings

See if multiple users are defined there and examine each My Documents folder to see if it contains the content you are looking for.

As this post has nothing to do with Outlook, I suggest that repost you this question in the Windows XP forum and continue.

Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
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