the Windows desktop folder structure

The standard classification of windows 'computer, desktop, my documents' has been changed and I now several "desktop" and the sub folder 'My documents', containing the same files and documents. If I try to eliminate one, records and documents are also eliminated. By dragging a subfolder in the top folder does not either. How to eliminate these subfolders and return to the standard vista classification structure for files and documents.

Do not use 'Old' - simply the old username on its own. If it is not there, then you have bigger problems because you have lost the profile and which can be difficult to recover. And you should not need to look for it - just go to it since you know where it is (or where it should be). It is that the administrator means only something, if it's the only active administrator on the system - you must be an administrator to do. I gave instructions on the use of the AHA in the case where this is the case and you may need to do that (sorry I can't help you with a French translation, because even if I took the French at school, I forgot the most now - 35 or more years later with essentially no use in the meantime).

Here are my general guidelines on how to recover lost files and folders in Vista (and it may take some time if you have lost the whole profile and you may have lost some data if you use the HDD in the meantime):

If you have Vista Business, Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise, you can be lucky. They have so-called saves shadow copies, which are deleted or modified files that can be recovered in case changes/deletions made by mistake. http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-Vista/features/shadow-copy.aspx more information about how to use this feature to: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/howdoi/?p=145.

If you have Vista Basic or Premium of Vista, shadow copies is not available; However, there is an alternative that is free and the shadow copies feature called Shadow Explorer. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/recover-files-with-shadow-copies-on-any-version-of-windows-vista/. Although it will not help you this time, it could very well save you in case this happens again.

In case this does not work (not all files are available through shadow - it occurs periodically), here are some additional free recovery programs that might help:

http://www.SnapFiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html (first try Recuva)

http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/DiskDigger.html (try it then if Recuva does not work)

http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/easusdfr.html

http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/restoration.html

http://www.SnapFiles.com/downloads/Recuva/dlrecuva.html

http://www.SoftPerfect.com/products/FileRecovery/

http://techpaul.WordPress.com/2008/06/23/how-to-recover-your-lost-files/

The files are not really deleted until they are crushed (although they are no longer available through conventional methods). If you decide to try these recovery programs, you should stop using your drive hard immediately in order not to replace the data that you are trying to recover. He slave on another PC and launch the recovery of this PC. Even now you have definitely lost some of them if you use the same PC. If you can not do this (slave on another PC), you run the risk of overwriting the data with every action you do on the PC (but you may still be able to recover some or most or even all files - it's a matter of luck).

Only you can decide if the data is important enough to take the PC to an expert data recovery to recover files (they will have better programs and hardware to do that none of us do, and I've provided above). Do NOT go to the Geek Squad or one of these centers of store-, they generally don't know what they are doing - it take for expert data recovery. It will cost you a little and they generally offer no guarantees. The decision is yours.

Good luck and I hope this helps!

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