Recovery?

Hello,

I am not very computer savy, and i had an issue yesterday after updating my drivers where my desktop picture was over the top of all icons including the start bar, so i was unable to do anything, i tried to do what i thought was system restore by pressing F10 in the start up i was hoping to set my computer back to the previous day but it's done a set back to factory settings :cry

I have lost all my pictures of my kids, all my work, everything, even though i still have the icons for everything. I phoned mircrosoft as i am usually running Microsoft Windows XP Media centre service pack 3, although now it says service pack 2, they tell me they don't support XP anymore and that there is nothing i can do apart from taking it to a shop to see if they can recover my things.

I want to recover it back to monday evening, so i have everything back again, is this possible and if so how?

 

Hi thankyou for your reply,

I have got everything back, i was reading some stuff up on the internet and luckerly my computer created what was called a new profile, all the old stuff i found was in C:/Documents and Settings\HP_Aminstrator, i put my hard drive into another pc and copied everyting over into the new profile named C:/Documents and Settings\HP_Aminstrator_your-(then there is some numbers which i believe is my serial code) . I do have to reinstall all my cd games but i have all the save files in the old profile so i can just copy those into the folders required, thank goodness i have my pictures back.

Thanks again for your help i have put the instructions down on what i did incase this happens to anyone else.