Computer Guru鈥檚 I need your HELP!!!!?

I lost My Documents and My Pictures Folders!
I have been trying to remove WMP11 (little success).

*I have Windows XP Pro, 32bit

In my attempts, I had downloaded 鈥淪marty Uninstaller Pro 2008鈥?(15 day Freebie), hoping it would remove WMP11, trying the registry cleaner and other functions, etc.
And I鈥檒l be damned! I failed to correctly save the restore file on the program.

Somewhere in all of this chaos, folders - My Documents and My Pictures and their contents disappeared!

And best of all, my System Restore had been turned off somehow and not sure when (I never turn it off!). So I have no restore point, I tried manually making one, but no good.

I desperately need those folders back!!!

I seriously dropped the ball on this one! PLEASE HELP!!!

**Update** Thanks guys! I used Recova, which recovered over 15,000 items! Then I also used Pandora which found an additional 11,000.
Lots oj junk to sort through and reorganize since it all came back scattered with no rhyme or reason, but nevertheless it's back!

Search for the lost folder names using the search function in XP (they could have just been moved smoewhere else)...if no provail, try downloading a program called Recuva which can recover deleted documents for free.

go to control panel, performance and maintenance. on the right side their should be a system restore. dialog box will show up choose restore my computer to an earlier time click next. choose a date then click next. it should work. good luck

You do have a mess. Not sure how much help but here are a few things:

1. You delete WMP11 by START\CONTROL PANEL
Click "Add or remove programs" and select WMP11 at the bottom of the list/. Click REMOVE.
(Don't delete anything in the Registry unless you absolutely know what you're doing.}

2. To turn on System Restore
START\CONTROL PANEL\SYSTEM\
Click the 鈥淪ystem Restore鈥?tab.
Clear the check box for 鈥淭urn off system restore鈥?br>
3. You can't delete the My Documents folder. It is a system protected folder that will reconstruct each time you boot. It is very difficult to even move the folder. The contents can be deleted but that takes some effort. My Pictures is not protected but the contents are difficult to accidentally delete.

If I understand, when you right click START and choose "Explore" the My Documents folder is gone? Is it possible that you mean that the icons are gone from the desktop? If so, that is an easy one. If your files are really deleted, download a free file restore program and recover them.

You should need to use recover software or backup data software. you can find it on www.softpedia.com