Spybot 1.6 locking user registry hives
I have experienced the same problem on two different PC's, of different manufacturers. Both PC's use Windows XP.
The restricted users could not access their existing documents in the "My Document" folder which now was blank. Also all e-mails and contacts in Outlook were lost.
This problem is obviously repeatable. Norton GoBack resolved this temporary disaster. I hope to hear a response on how the SpyBot developers will solve this issue. I have stopped using SpyBot for now.
JohnT
Data in User Profile is truly lost
It seems that I have completely lost all data for my other user profile on my machine due to this problem.
The first time it happened, I found the data on my drive by searching and backed up the My Documents folder, then successfully followed instructions to restore the old profile. The second time it happened, the lost data is no longer turning up in a drive search and I had forgotten to backup my Firefox bookmarks for that user profile. These now seem to be gone for good. I wish there was a way to get those back now. If anyone has a suggestion to recover that user's bookmarks, please let me know.
This all began happening the day I upgraded to Spybot 1.6