Use System Restore to rescue lost user profile in Win XP?

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Published on 2010-05-21T15:34:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 22:11 UTC
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Hi! My win XP account profile has recently been "reset".

Many app settings are lost.
For example, the "recent project" list in VS 2005 is empty.
There should be lots of other stuffs that are painfully lost
without me knowing!

What can I do? Can I retrieve the app settings from
System Restore?

I don't have much confidence on this util,
even tho I think restoring to a point when the profile
still works, and back up away the C:\Documents and Settings
(is it where all the app setting files are located?),
that should work...

Is it reliable to restore to a previous restore pt
and then goes back to the latest RP?
I've googled on System Restore, looks like what the util does
is just back up some physical files, and restore them when doing
System Restore.
That sounds quite safe, but I am still uncomfortable to this.

Thx for u guys' help in advance!

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