User Account icons and outlook gone. Help plz!!

[bjsteyn]

I restarted a computer at our office and when logged into the same useraccount most of the desktop icons were gone and the outlook account was gone.

I tried using system restore but it didnt change anything.

I was busy setting up a mapped network drive is that is any help

I am mainly worried about getting the emails back .

Thanks for any help!

bj

 

[Minkey]

Couple of questions:

Are the user accounts managed locally ? i.e. only on the PC not using any kind of active directory and importantly which icons have not disappeared.

Has Outlook completely gone ? i.e. the entire program and again how is your e-mail managed.

 

[bjsteyn]

Hey Minkey

Are the user accounts managed locally ? i.e. only on the PC not using any kind of active directory and importantly which icons have not disappeared.

Has Outlook completely gone ? i.e. the entire program and again how is your e-mail managed.[/quote]

Whe use a windows server 2003 standard edition as our server.

it is like outlook uninstalled intself. When clicked on outlook it ran the installation wizard. I have seen that with access before. What is the cause of this?

I am a bit new to server networks.
What do you meen by active drive.

The accounts are locally but they are backed up to server.
You have type in a user account and password that is on the server to access the shared drives.

thanks
bj