Need to undo a file merge between two Windows 7 computers
I have two Windows 7 computers. For the sake of this question we will call them Boss's PC and Mary's PC. Right now the Boss's PC is the fast of the two computers. The Boss wants Mary to have his computer because she does more work and would benefit from having the faster computer. We were tasked with doing the data transfers. We mistakenly merged the profile on the Boss's computer with the profile on Mary's computer, not knowing that the profile on both computers had the same name, so it ended up merging the boss's data with Mary's data. Is there any way of reversing this merge? Otherwise we have to go thru the profiles on each computer and delete the data that was merged from the boss to Mary's computer, file by file.
thanks in advance.
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thanks but system restore does not restore the documents files and everything that is included under the profile name.
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I live/work in an area where 90% of our clients are companies that do not have servers. At best they have a PC running Win7 and is designated as the 'server' and run peer-to-peer. They do not normally backup their data or use a lot of technology. Considering I come from Long Island where every PC/server had a UPS and there was a wide range of technologies used to prevent data loss and virus and security software were the norm, and not the exception, it is very difficult to get acclimated to the lack of use of current technology. So knowing this, there are no backups, we don't image we don't image everyone computer that comes in for service. But NVIT's response is most like the best choice for this situation. Thanks to all for their responses.
What happens when data is lost? Backups are the most important thing to do with IT. If no backups are done, Computers shouldn't be used at all and the people should do everything with pen and paper. Teach your clients to backup!
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/restore-system-files-and-settings