Recently, my friend's computer had a strange phenomenon. She has only one user for the whole system, named User
. Recently, she saw different content on her desktop, and the different style of start menu (normally, she uses classic style, but she saw a Vista style).
When I checked out her computer, I saw a TEMP folder located right under C:/Users
and the desktop content inside C:/Users/TEMP/Desktop
was exactly like what had been on the desktop at that time (meanwhile she was logged in using User
account)
In another folder, C:/Users/User/Desktop
, were her files
She managed to move file from her old Desktop to the current Desktop.
Later, after a reboot, the desktop was restored to the original, and all files she moved to the new Desktop is long gone. I checked out her computer again: the C:/Users/TEMP folder no longer existed.
When I tried Windows Vista Search, I can still see the the name of files of C:/Users/TEMP/Desktop
in the index, but these files are inaccessible since they are deleted.
What kind of funny stuff is that? How should people avoid such a thing?