My laptop is in a bad way.
Despite knowing better, early this evening I didn?t shut XP down properly. I pushed the off switch without logging off etc. Mistake.
On reloading I was met by the blue ?Scan Disk? screen (not called anymore, but you get the idea). After a long time of checking it told me that Simon.dat.log (or something like that) was corrupt and therefore deleted, as was the whole contents of /windows/apppatch. Bugger.
I guess that Simon.dat.log has something to do with my user profile under XP, because all my settings were gone ?or rather moved. XP had made a new folder called Simon.SIMON in documents and settings, and all my old data was in one called Simon.
Feeling cavalier about it all (I was pissed off) I just moved all my data/music to Simon.SIMON and deleted Simon. Is there anything else I might need to consider about my XP profile? Everything seems to work now (expect my cookies, which didn?t like being moved).
But? the folder /windows/apppatch is empty. I don?t want the bother of a reinstall, but I guess that XP probably needs this folder for something or other. I think that /apppatch has something to do with compatibility, but I?m no expert. Everything seems to be running ok ?which is odd. Can XP really be so bloated that a whole important looking folder can be deleted and nothing bad happen? Can I get the contents of apppatch from somewhere else?
Any advice would be greatly welcome.
Despite knowing better, early this evening I didn?t shut XP down properly. I pushed the off switch without logging off etc. Mistake.
On reloading I was met by the blue ?Scan Disk? screen (not called anymore, but you get the idea). After a long time of checking it told me that Simon.dat.log (or something like that) was corrupt and therefore deleted, as was the whole contents of /windows/apppatch. Bugger.
I guess that Simon.dat.log has something to do with my user profile under XP, because all my settings were gone ?or rather moved. XP had made a new folder called Simon.SIMON in documents and settings, and all my old data was in one called Simon.
Feeling cavalier about it all (I was pissed off) I just moved all my data/music to Simon.SIMON and deleted Simon. Is there anything else I might need to consider about my XP profile? Everything seems to work now (expect my cookies, which didn?t like being moved).
But? the folder /windows/apppatch is empty. I don?t want the bother of a reinstall, but I guess that XP probably needs this folder for something or other. I think that /apppatch has something to do with compatibility, but I?m no expert. Everything seems to be running ok ?which is odd. Can XP really be so bloated that a whole important looking folder can be deleted and nothing bad happen? Can I get the contents of apppatch from somewhere else?
Any advice would be greatly welcome.
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