The files are still on the hard drive, but nothing would run. We had shortcuts and icons on the desktop that are now not showing.

It alnost looks like a different profile is running. When I go to documents and settings, I see a All Users, with the desktop there showing all the usual shortcuts that I expect. But they are not on the desktop running.

Also, I have a little applet showing start up files, and there is NOTHING there. Almost like everything was wiped out.

We went to do a system restore and go back a couple of days, but there seems to not be anything there past today either.

I did get the Wireless Assistant to install and run so he has internet access and he says he'll just re-install any programs he needs to run (which installed the dlls etc,) and just go from there for right now. Since all his data did not seem to be lost.

The really wierd thing is even Windows XP is now saying its a trial version. It was all registered before.