>> Is there any way to communicate the severity of this problem to the Vista bug team?
I don't have the link/ID to send Bug reports to.
Here is a Vista Feedback link:
http://feedback.windowsvista.microso...ctkey=winvista
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
"Jim Johnson - Serenity Consulting" <JimJohnsonSerenityConsulting@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B153FCED-F80B-4CC9-B531-3D6BC363F250@xxxxxx
Quote from Jay:
"The Disk Cleanup now shows 140GB for both Per User Archived Error Reporting
and Per User Queued Error Reporting."
I just experienced a near identical situation as Jay, and recovery will take
me a good chunk of my weekend.
About a week ago I upgraded my notebook from Home Premium to Ultimate. I
decided to clean up the drive over lunch in preparation for imaging it when I
got home that night. I spotted the two error reporting entries and based on
the description when selected decided it was safe to add them to the default
cleanup list.
I was browsing while eating my sandwich and noticed all but the default
system icons disappear from my desktop, when I went to the Start menu
(classic) I noticed several icons here where also missing as well as icons
from the QuickLaunch toolbar. Disk Cleanup reported it was working on the
above error reporting items. I was obviously suspicious but not yet paniced.
I used Explorer and found the 'Program Files' folder was intact.
I decided better safe than sorry, so I cancelled the Disk Cleanup. I
right-clicked the desktop and asked for a 'Refresh' which did nothing. So I
tried a Restart from the Start menu. Vista would come up with an error that
system files were missing. None of the Safe Modes helped, including Last
Known Good Configuration. Vista suggested I needed to boot from its DVD and
run repair.
I am happy to report that repair, followed by System Restore, did in fact
make Windows bootable to my account, only my icons were still missing. Then I
tried to launch Outlook 2007 and it acted as though it had just been
installed, not yet activated and no account setup. I canceled and then found
nearly all my user settings were gone and well as ALL my data files
(documents, pictures, you name it).
Fortunately I imaged the hard drive just before upgrading to Ultimate, so
most everything is recoverable via that mechanism. Still, I agree with Jay,
NO WAY should something like this EVER happen to begin with.
Is there any way to communicate the severity of this problem to the Vista
bug team?
Jim