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umm what just happened
earlier today i was in a hury and just shut my computer off by holding down the power button which i've done before and its been fine but now i just started my computer back up and my computer has been reset. i lost all of my documents, all of my pictures, songs on itunes, not to mention 3 years worth of saved games on The Sims and downloads!! i didn't backup files because i dont really have anything worth backing up. when i started the computer i was getting boxes saying "would you like to view the windows XP tutorial" as if i was turning on the computer for the first time. i have shut off my computer by holding down the power button many many times before so im really confused why this happened now. what happened?
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You should never turn off your computer like that because if you do this and your harddrive is accessing some form of data or reading some form of data is can cause the harddrive to become corrupted therefore destroying the usefullness of your computer also you should rather than turn off your computer leave it on. It's not good for a computer to be turned on and off on and off it's better for it to just stay on always.
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You are probably just in a new user account. Go to start, log off. If your username isn't there, navigate to C:documents and settingsOLD USERNAME. Your documents will be in the desktop and "my documents" folder. You can move them to your new user account.
It probably didn't cause this, but in the future don't hold down the power button unless your computer is completely frozen. Every time you do that a small but random amount of data is lost. If this lost data happens to be in an important place, bad things happen.
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