After setting up 7100 and installing programs etc, I did a defrag the rebooted. It offered mu two accounts - "John" and "Visitor"and I logged into John with a password. I then received a message that it was unable to find the desktop and it proceeded to generate a new one. I immediately restarted and this time it found the original Johghn Desktop and everything was OK.I could not replicate the problem.Intel P4 1.8GHz, 1Gb, AVG Free

Hi JohnThis could have been anything?Let us know if the behaviormanifests itselfagain. Regards, Thank You for testing Windows 7 Ronnie Vernon MVP

OK I keep trying to bring it up

This happened again. I did a system restore to a date about three weeks earlier, the restore occurred then when it restarted it said "preparing desktop" for a while then the message about being unable to find the desktop appeared.I restarted the computer and it was back to normal and successfully restored.I then undid that system restore and this time it worked OK