Please bear in mind when reading this message, that while I am competent with MS Windows, my expertise is with other non-Microsoft x86 operating systems. 
OK, between the time I left work last night at around 5:45 and got to work this morning at 8:30, nearly 90% of the software I installed on my work machine disappeared.
It's a Dell box with a 33GB SCSI HD, of which approx. 6.5GB were being used. I locked the screen last night before leaving. Only the cleaning trolls would have been in the office. When I unlocked the machine and started to work, I noticed that some of my shortcuts were not locating the executables. I opened up the folder where I install software (C:\apps, NOT "Program Files", which I abhor), and nearly everything was gone. I updated my virus defs, ran a full scan, and came up with nothing. I ran the Disk Defragmenter, which made it look like I sorely needed to do it, so I did. Still nothing appeared. I installed the Recovery Console off the Windows CD and ran chkdsk /r from that. Still nothing.
The weird things:1) the amount of free space being reported from yesterday to today has not changed. 2) No other files on my hard drive are missing or moved. Only things in the C:\apps tree.
Does anyone have any other ideas? I will probably go ahead and reinstall things....I've lost the whole morning to this, since the old version of Arcview 3.2 was among the things that vanished. Rather frustrating, believe me. And no, I'm not going to out-and-out blame Windows for this, although it makes me resent that fact that I'm forced to use it at work even more than I already do.
OK, between the time I left work last night at around 5:45 and got to work this morning at 8:30, nearly 90% of the software I installed on my work machine disappeared.
It's a Dell box with a 33GB SCSI HD, of which approx. 6.5GB were being used. I locked the screen last night before leaving. Only the cleaning trolls would have been in the office. When I unlocked the machine and started to work, I noticed that some of my shortcuts were not locating the executables. I opened up the folder where I install software (C:\apps, NOT "Program Files", which I abhor), and nearly everything was gone. I updated my virus defs, ran a full scan, and came up with nothing. I ran the Disk Defragmenter, which made it look like I sorely needed to do it, so I did. Still nothing appeared. I installed the Recovery Console off the Windows CD and ran chkdsk /r from that. Still nothing.
The weird things:1) the amount of free space being reported from yesterday to today has not changed. 2) No other files on my hard drive are missing or moved. Only things in the C:\apps tree.
Does anyone have any other ideas? I will probably go ahead and reinstall things....I've lost the whole morning to this, since the old version of Arcview 3.2 was among the things that vanished. Rather frustrating, believe me. And no, I'm not going to out-and-out blame Windows for this, although it makes me resent that fact that I'm forced to use it at work even more than I already do.
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