Personal workbood help

First post and not sure if this is the correct forum.

I need help with my personal workbook. I have excel 2010 on my work computer. To use my personal workbook macros it had to open when I opened excel. I accidentally saved my personal workbook as another file and it was opening when I opened excel but I had all my macros. Something happened to my pc and they had to restore my profile. When they did that my personal workbook was not opening and I couldn’t use my macros. I looked and researched how to open the workbook when I opened excel but couldn’t find anything. This is where it got bad. I went in and deleted the file that was my personal workbook. Now I cannot record macros to my personal workbook.

In my local disk c/users/myname/appdata/roaming/Microsoft/exel folder I have a folder named personal 302403933728469373, a folder named XLstart, an exel file named 2012-01-04 (version 1), a folder excel4xlb and excel file named personal (version1).

In my XLstart folder I have a file named personal.

When I try to save a macro to the personal workbook I get the message “Personal macro workbook in the startup folder must stay open for recording.” Even when I open the personal file in xlstart I can’t record a macro to the personal workbook. Nobody I have talked to at work knows anything about this. Really really appreciate what ever help you folks can give me.

Just wanted to thank everyone for all the help. Much appreciated. This a great forum for excel help. NOT!

Perhaps no one understood what a "personal workbood" is. If you can't be bothered ensuring the accuracy of your title others may not be bothered to respond.

Richard, thanks for the response. My laptop is at work, I will get back to you on Monday.