On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:15:11 -0500, philo wrote:

On 03/22/2017 07:51 PM, RichA wrote:
My computer froze up, which isn't normal, it's never done it in 3 years. So, rebooted and...my desktop was "molested." Background image gone, most of the folders, settings in programs. Went and looked at "E" (Storage) drive and saw a slew of stuff missing. Did some searches, oh well, nothing much to do but rebuild, because (surprise, surprise) no restore points existed. So I rebuilt the desktop, to a point. New desktop. Did virus scans as well, nothing showing. Worked with it for 2 days. Came home after an hour on the 3rd day, computer was not sending a video signal to the monitor. So I rebooted...original desktop came back, everything as it was prior to the disappearance.




More than likely you had logged-in to the wrong profile.

Funny you'd bring that up. My computer, probably like many others,
automatically logs into the same profile every time I boot or reboot.
But there were times that I had similar problems as Rich, and it had
booted into another user profile. That wasn't the case every time,
though. It is something to look into, but it appears to be just one
more Windows issue, not user error. There are plenty of hits on a
search, but I didn't see anything on a quick look that seemed helpful.
"Corrupted user profile" seems to be the most common term in the
results, and maybe Windows can fix that by itself.