[oarpanicdave]

I shut my computer down last night, and when I rebooted this morning, I got an error stating that my personal settings could not be loaded. I rebooted in safe mode, logged out, and then restarted. The problem in no longer present, but XP is not loading my personal settings (icons are missing from the tray and desktop, etc). All the files are still on my computre. Any idea of how I can restore my profile?

[Jack Hackett]

See this article How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP

Hope it helps