Opening a .HTX file

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#3445994 20-Dec-2025 11:40

Check under C:\Users and your old folder will be there. Sometimes this happens when the profile is corrupted. I think this thread should move to window support. 😁

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#3445999 20-Dec-2025 11:51

quickymart: ... Have I got two desktop folders somehow? 😕

Every Windows user has 2 by default, the 'Public' Desktop & the 'personal' Desktop. Windows shows both Desktops together on your screen. OneDrive users might also have a 'third' Desktop folder inside of their OneDrive folder.

C:\Users\[username]\Desktop
C:\Users\Public\Desktop
C:\Users\[username]\OneDrive\Desktop

Windows File Explorer also sort-of 'hides / obscures' the location of your Desktop folder. You can right-click on your Desktop folder & look at the location tab. Or use the Command Prompt to view your C:\Users\[username] folder. See my post about Windows 11 showing you 3 Desktop folders. in the navigation tree.

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#3446007 20-Dec-2025 13:58

Take a look at system properties - system protection tab > system restore button

That should show a list of available restore points

There's also a checkbox show more restore points

No action at the moment just identify what you have.

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#3446031 20-Dec-2025 17:13

This is the only restore point available.

Worth a try?

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#3446034 20-Dec-2025 17:19

BarTender:

Check under C:\Users and your old folder will be there. Sometimes this happens when the profile is corrupted. I think this thread should move to window support. 😁

Indeed, I found my desktop files in there and copied them to the folder that gzt suggested, which worked...for a while.

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#3446035 20-Dec-2025 17:22

quickymart:

This is the only restore point available.

Worth a try?

Select choose a different restore point then next, then select show all restore points.

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#3446036 20-Dec-2025 17:28

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#3446038 20-Dec-2025 17:31

I would back everything up first, ideally to an external USB or to a cloud drive just in case. The restore points can sometimes wipe out your home directory and documents / folders under there.

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#3446042 20-Dec-2025 18:18

BarTender:

I would back everything up first, ideally to an external USB or to a cloud drive just in case. The restore points can sometimes wipe out your home directory and documents / folders under there.

Right, I've backed up everything I possibly can, and am running System Restore. Here goes 🤞

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#3446090 20-Dec-2025 18:48

Everything I've read indicates system restore does not act on user files. Restart after the restore before you do anything at all. It will affect registry pointers to user profiles.

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#3446093 20-Dec-2025 19:54

I was going to suggest a chkdsk /f before the system restore. It can be after, but it might be worth repeating the restore if chkdsk /f finds problems.

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#3446094 20-Dec-2025 19:57

All done (took about 90 minutes) but sadly absolutely nothing has changed - I think my only choice is going to be to blow it away and reinstall Windows 😞 I'm going to try the "Reset this PC" option from the Settings menu first to see if that resolves it or not.

I'd like to thank everyone who posted here with a suggestion, I do greatly appreciate it. Just a pity what started as a simple how to open a file query turned into something quite different 😕

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#3446101 20-Dec-2025 22:06

Back on my desktop now. I'm glad I backed everything up - restoring it all is going to be a major nuisance, but at least I've got my backup files to utilise.

Again a big thanks to everyone who made a suggestion in here, I do appreciate it.

As to the original topic, I think that file is too dangerous to try and open 😆

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