I've deleted a user account in Windows XP and belatedly discovered there may be a file in it with data that was not saved.
David Cambridge
Use an admin account to look in the C:\Documents and Settings\ folder for the name of the user account. If there is no folder or there's nothing in it, the files have been deleted. In this case, "deleted" means the space they occupied has been marked as free for re-use. If the space has not been used for new data, then you may be able to recover the file with an undelete program or something more sophisticated such as Recover My Files. Search using the name of the file or at least the extension (pst, doc or whatever) to eliminate unwanted clutter. The more you use the PC, however, the more likely it is that the file will be overwritten.
