Windows 10: Accidentally used Windows PowerShell to delete a file and ended up deleted my desktop....

I did something very dumb. I was trying to deleted a undeletable file with powershell, but when I did it deleted my entire desktop along with all my documents and pictures. Im guessing there was somehow a copy of my desktop in that deleted file. Anyways I even made a system restore point before doing anything with powershell but even the system restore couldn't bring back my files. I have since went ahead with a pc reset but that wasn't successful either.All I am really trying to do now is trying to retrieve just this one important single text .txt file that was on my desktop prior to the

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Cant Delete Files From Desktop

Well, ran into a weird bug with vista, for some reason i cant delete files from desktop, this normaly happens to .exe files, the ONLY fix seems to be to KILL explorer.exe, and delete the file, then restat explorer, anybody got any idea why this happens?

 

windows 10 deleted my desktop files

Step 1 - I upgraded to Win 10 and lost all my files on Desktop.

Step 2 - Found the files in Network - USers- Desktop

copied all files again to desktop.

Step 3- Restarted my machine again and lost desktop files again.

Step 4 - As suggested did the following as listed below but dont find my files.

• Press “Windows + E”, open This PC/Computer
• Open Local Disc C, open Windows.old
• Click on Users, select your User name
• Go to desktop folder

Cant find my files. Why is Win 10 deleted files again and again from Desktop ?.

 

App for deleting files while being used by another process...

I finally got rid of these 2 files, I ended up going into the command prompt in XP and typing in the command to delete it, just as it prompted are u sure i ended task on explorer and then accepted the delete, the files that were stuck on my desktop finally went away but thanks for your help!