Win 11 it hates me

[silverfoxcc]

As regular readers know, computers and i do not mix well. The latest episode nearly covinces me that this is getting personal

This morning whilst it was running slow... it was running ok
tonight when i switched it on ,it told me it could not recognise User profile and after a while told me it was reinstalliing Windows

On finishing all of the installed programmes were still there EXCEPT Microsoft Office...so i have to re install that.

BUT, and here is the problem When i went to look in my Documents and download sections, they were both empty,

How did that happen, as it stated that a recovery would not delete any files or programmes!! and is there anyway that i might recover the downloads and documents

Thought i would ask before i did anything else

[sunbeam alpine]

Windows has created a new user profile, which means that the "my documents" and "downloads" folder (linked to your old profile) aren't visible in your new profile.

You need to use regedit to rename your old profile (which probably ends in .bak). Google will give you the instructions you need.

If it's W11 on a new PC I'd be taking it back to where you bought it as a problem with the hard drive can give rise to these problems. If it's an older PC I'd be thinking about replacing the hard drive.

[silverfoxcc]

Well i give up

Having double checked that both Documents and Downloads showed This file is empty. I reinstalled Microsoft office..

Both files have magically turned up.


I told you it hates me

[mattley]

Your documents are probably actually on your one drive which connected when you signed into office.

Also Win 11 doesn't hate you specifically, it's an all out assault on humanity.

[QJumper]

They should have stopped at XP and just concentrated on security updates after that.

[Cliftonite]

QJumper said:

They should have stopped at XP and just concentrated on security updates after that.

I was quite happy with Windows 3.11

[eeLee]

Look what I was installing yesterday

[QJumper]

The first "PC" I used for work was a repurposed Commodore 64, which was obviously mainly a games machine. You could get other software for it, like wordprocessing and basic accounting, but there was no internet to find it, only small ads in the back of computer magazines and mail order. I started my first business with that, working out of my bedroon whilst still living with my parents.

The first time I saw an operating system, with colours and icons etc, compared to a black screen with a flashing cursor, was mindblowing.

[Steve_H80]

My first experience of computers at work was an Amiga running CAD software so I assumed all computers did the multitasking, graphical interface stuff.
Everyone else was using, DOS. I couldn't understand it, why pays so much more for such junk 🙂