How to recover documents

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katie - Apr 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM
 Anonymous User - Apr 2, 2011 at 01:02 PM
Hi i would like to no if i can recover lost documents,,, my laptop had been playing me up for a while so i decided to restore the system but i thought i had saved all my documents on external hard drive but after i had restored the computer and tried to load up my ex.hd there was no documents on there so iwould like to no if there is anyway to recover them after a restore thank-you

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Anonymous User
Apr 2, 2011 at 01:02 PM
Hello,

Try this:

1. click on start menu

2. on the start search box type regedit and press enter

3. then on the regedit go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

4. on the right pane check if you can see the missing files or folders (under Name column) has the default %USERPROFILE% location (under Data column) for it.

5. right click on the missing files or folders and click modify

6. Type in the default location of the missing personal user folder, then click OK.

7. Close regedit.

8. Logoff and logon, or restart the computer to restore the folder.

Good Luck
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