My gHod I hate Windows
So, my video card overheated, presumably, and rebooted my computer. After de-gunking it I started the machine up, at which point Windows wanted to run chkdsk. Null sweat, right? So, it corrects some indexes, and I proceed to login. I’m waiting. Waiting. Waiting some more.
An error pops up that it can’t load the user registry hives. Fuck? I hit ok on these, and it continues to load. The desktop is all clean, aside from icons from All Users, and nothing it right. It’s a blank profile, but the user name shows my login name.
I begin sweating over lost folders and email. Looking in Documents and Settings, I see my email, but it isn’t lining up with what Thunderbird is saying. An lo, there’s my Desktop stuff, in the Desktop folder, but not on my Desktop. WTF?
Poking around I notice that I’m working from Documents and Settings\TEMP. Rather than loading a default ntuser into my profile, it decided to make a temporary profile (that disappears upon logging out, I might add), that appears to be mine without explaining any of the crap it just did.
Copy the default ntuser files into my real profile, and I’m up and running. What the hell man? Why would your failure mode be to lie to me?