My dh and I use the envelope system, and we love it. Basically you need to determine what catagories you will need.
We have envelopes for: FOOD GAS CAR REPAIRS CLOTHING ENTERTAINMENT TOILETRIES(Hairspray, shampoo, toothpaste,etc) BLOW$$$
Now what you are doing is putting in each envelope what you have allowed from your paycheck. For ex. if you have allowed $80.00 for groceries, you want to put exactly $80.00 in that envelope and only take that and a calculator to the store with you. You need to leave the checkbook/debit card at home. Your goal is to only use a check book for your bills and not to use a debit card any longer. If you cannot pay for it with the cash that you have saved up then you may need to wait a little longer to buy it.
Here are the next steps, after you leave the grocery store, if there is any money left over, you put it back in that envelope along with the receipt and write it on the front of your envelope. You want to keep a log of your expenses so actually see where every penny is going.
If you put exactly in your envelopes what your budget allows, you should be able to hopefully save some money along the way.
I am sorry if I am just rambling, if you don't understand or need more help please feel free to contact me and I can send more info.
I am sorry to hear that, the only thing that I can think to suggest to you would be. Click on "Start" should be located on the bottom left side of your screen.
Next click on "RUN" and type in msconfig.
Next make sure that the circle is dotted in on the "NORMAL STARTUP" and then towards the bottom click on "LAUNCH SYSTEM RESTORE"
It will let you choose a date, if you know exactly what date you did your switch on, I would make it for the day before.
I am not sure if this will bring back your pics or not but it has helped me in the past when I have deleted things off of my compute.
