How To Find Local Settings In Windows Xp

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 07:26 AM

Hi
Using Windows XP Dwelling house.
I am logged on as the administrator, as usual.
Recently, I tin't find the "Local Settings" binder in its usual place, that is, in C:\Documents and Settings\my name\ (where I could always run into information technology before now).
However, I tin find it by using Search in Windows Explorer, and tin then open the folder, and sub-folders and files from there.
Can anyone explain why the folder doesn't prove in the normal Explorer view, and how I tin can get it back?
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Robin Oram
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Posted 25 January 2009 - 03:43 PM

Maybe the binder was accidentally moved. When you lot search for the folder using Explorer's Search function what path does it give?

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 07:thirty PM

Are yous certain that you have "Show hidden files and folders" enabled?

Open Explorer, become Tools > Folder Options.... Select the View tab. Select the radio push button that says Evidence hidden files, folders, and drives. Select Utilise then select OK.

If information technology really is not there, it sounds similar it got deleted somehow. Every bit Budapest mentioned, what is the direct path? Information technology may be finding Local Settings elsewhere, similar in another user account.

In an endeavor to bring it back, try going to a website like world wide web.interfacelift.com and select a background picture show. Right-click it, select Set equally desktop groundwork. Your background volition change, and the Local Settings binder should be recreated. If I remember correctly, Internet Explorer Wallpaper is stored in C:\Documents and Settings\useraccount\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\. If information technology Local Settings shows up now, that means that it was deleted.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 09:xix AM

Thanks to Budapest and E-werd for replies. In answer:-

The paths shown when searching for Local Settings are
1) C:\WINDOWS
2) C:\Documents and settings\Administrator
iii) as for 2) but \Default User
iv) equally for ii) but \Default User.Windows32
5) equally for 2) but \Guest
6) as for 2) only \username
7) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\arrangement contour
(too as in the I Due east enshroud opened as in the next paragraph, referring to these posts.)

In all of the above, I can discover History and Temporary Cyberspace Files folders but But in no half-dozen) higher up can I open those folders and can run across actual files listed, and they announced to be complete.

Aye, in the Files View options I have the "show hidden files" options checked.

I tried the new desktop installation work-around but this had no effect. However I can see it in the Temp I E Files folder opened equally just noted, then it's at that place all right!

Apparently my Local Settings binder has not been deleted only I still can't get it to prove up in the Folders list in Documents and Settings. Whatever more ideas will exist welcome.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - xi:20 AM

Worth looking at, IMO: http://www.allpostnews.co.uk/i5/How%20to%2...gs%20folder.php

Why not simply run the sfc /scannow control?

Learn how to use SFC.EXE (arrangement file checker) in this article! - http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

If you accept system files missing which are normally viewable to the user...you simply might have organisation files missing which are not normally as high-contour.

Have you checked Event Viewer for possible clues?

How To Use Event Viewer - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/40108/how-to-use-event-viewer/

Take yous tried running chkdsk /r?

And, of form, the hard drive should be a logical suspect until eliminated. I tend to try the easy, obvious stuff first when searching for answers to apparent "mysteries".

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Making routine backup images of your partitions/drives...using 3d-party software...is probably the most important activity that any user can engage in.

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