Thank You Windows 10

[Digital Micro]

I had some free time this afternoon so I decided to boot up my Windows 10 system to begin working on my website. I entered my password and walked away for a minute to talk on the phone. Came back and all my shortcuts where gone, all my data gone and it was almost as if the system was reset.

Now I have to restore from my backup. Thank you Windows 10.

 

[cypress]

Wow, what in the world!?

 

[SmittenmittenS]

How can you be sure it was Windows 10 fault? I've never had that problem happen on any W10 device. Did you check any logs to see if any reset had happened? Was it an update? Was it something else? Better blame the OS something happened!

 

[Digital Micro]

How can you be sure it was Windows 10 fault? I've never had that problem happen on any W10 device. Did you check any logs to see if any reset had happened? Was it an update? Was it something else? Better blame the OS something happened!

No reset was performed! No updates were installed! Does that make you feel better? I'm sorry if you take that tone the wrong way, actually no I am not.

 

[SmittenmittenS]

Have you found any other info to point it to being Windows 10 fault? Or just the fact its W10?

 

[carmen617]

Sounds to me like it loaded a temporary profile - easily fixed with a simple registry edit. The question is why, and that can be any number of reasons.

 

[Digital Micro]

Have you found any other info to point it to being Windows 10 fault? Or just the fact its W10?

When I find out you'll be the first to know. Better yet would you like to remote into my PC?

When you post sarcastic question, I will give sarcastic answers.

 

[nlinecomputers]

No reset was performed! No updates were installed! Does that make you feel better? I'm sorry if you take that tone the wrong way, actually no I am not.

Chill the only one showing a "tone" is you.

 

[SmittenmittenS]

When I find out you'll be the first to know. Better yet would you like to remote into my PC?

When you post sarcastic question, I will give sarcastic answers.

Carmen probably hit it right on the mark. I've ran into that problem before. All we had to do was reboot again and it loaded the actual profile. There, try that. I was just looking for more troubleshooting info than "Now I have to restore from my backup. Thank you Windows 10." Did you even try anything, or just come here to rant about W10? I'll stop here. I don't want to "troll this post" Good Luck.

 

[Digital Micro]

I don't handle people who post sarcastic responses well.

 

[Digital Micro]

Sounds to me like it loaded a temporary profile - easily fixed with a simple registry edit. The question is why, and that can be any number of reasons.

It was a profile issue of sorts. I have my icons, shortcuts and so on back. I noticed I still have a few folders where the data is gone inside.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Actual folders or is this virtual folders, like My documents?

 

[Digital Micro]

Carmen probably hit it right on the mark. I've ran into that problem before. All we had to do was reboot again and it loaded the actual profile. There, try that. I was just looking for more troubleshooting info than "Now I have to restore from my backup. Thank you Windows 10." Did you even try anything, or just come here to rant about W10? I'll stop here. I don't want to "troll this post" Good Luck.

I will apologize if a came across as an ahole. The part where you said "Better blame the OS something happened!" rubbed me the wrong way. I have been troubleshooting it.

 

[scoop818]

Wow that sucks, its weird how windows 10 seems to work inconsistently from user to user. I migrated my personal computer and all the family's computers (wife and 3 kids) over to windows 10 in September of 2015. I have had a few issues (none major), mostly adjusting the settings as windows tries to automate everything and make decisions for you.

Most of the calls I get from home users who have upgraded has been mainly not understanding the interface (i Cant find my this or that when I hit start). Once I show them a few things and make some adjustments, it seems to go fine.

I have not switch my business clients over yet, but I'm going to start next week with some that we have tested their main LOB software works with it.

I have read many horror stories, some on this site, on windows 10 migration, but I have yet to experience any yet (thank god). It just baffles me because I keep waiting to run into some and so far no luck. Personally I like windows 10, it has a few quirks that I would like to strip out, but overall in my opinion Microsoft is taking a step in he right direction.

 

[Digital Micro]

Actual folders. I have a few programs that some folders have their files, but some are empty. Some of the app data folders are empty as well.

 

[HCHTech]

I'll just chime in that I had a customer with this symptom - it was a corrupted profile. I found the entry in the event logs: "Windows couldn't load the user, so a default profile was used. You can work on your computer, but anything you won't have access to your files...." whatever the message was. Of course, they just clicked OK without reading the message, so they didn't even remember it. I fixed it with the old "rename the backup profile" trick in the registry. I don't know if that's what happened to the OPs machine or not but it sounds similar.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Actual folders. I have a few programs that some folders have their files, but some are empty. Some of the app data folders are empty as well.

So these are folders outside of your profile? Time to run chkdsk and check the HDD for issues.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Asssuming that backup is as solid as you say. Otherwise time to take an raw image first before chkdsk fuc... I mean fixes your drive.

 

[Porthos]

Restart can "fix" many things. We tend to forget or not know that with Win 10 with "fast start" enabled it does not do the same thing as restart when you turn it off and turn it on again.

 

[Digital Micro]

I don't have fast boot enabled. Upon the next restart everything was back. Running checks on the hhd now.

I didn't make any changes between 2nd and 3rd reboot. If chkdsk comes back clean I will really be puzzled.