Windows 10: Desktop Ruined After Reboot and Other Problems

I have no idea what happened, but now, my desktop has NO icons, and if I click on the Start Button, what I get is the desktop theme with the start button menus, etc., superimposed on the theme.

Just found something else: I clicked on the "minimize to desktop button" while writing this, which took me to the `false desktop,' and to return to this forum I had to click on the Start Button; clicking on the task bar icon for Firefox does nothing, nor does doing that for other applications either. In addition, the sqaure at the top right-hand corner for applications, that should reduce the size of the open window no longer does anything.

A short while later: I can get back to Firefox, etc., from the task bar icons, but have not quite figured out just how many clicks, etc., make it work.

Windows Key + D no longer does anything. It is as though I don't really have a desktop. (I have tried the shortcut keys to cycle through virtual desktops, which does not show me anything.

More discoveries: If I minimize an application to the task bar, then click on the start button, I can then return to the app by a single click on its task bar icon. When I click on the start button, it now always opens with just the Life and Play displays, no left-hand column. (I don't remember the name of those two `boxes.') I have to click on the start button's top-left icon to bring up the column with apps, access to Settings, etc.

Good Grief: Don't ask why I happened to look at the Settings module that includes an option for Tablet Mode. Suffice it to say that changing that from on to off, a setting when I had not turned it on, has restored matters to where they were before I rebooted.

Truly odd, along with just about everything else. Perhaps my odd experience will help anyone else who encounters what I met.

:)

 

Windows 10 Update

original problem with Win 10 update remains. I have ruin it again, it goes through all the motions of doing the update, but after final reboot it is still Windows 8.1. nothing changed. Issue is still current.

 

Windows 10 Update

original problem with Win 10 update remains. I have ruin it again, it goes through all the motions of doing the update, but after final reboot it is still Windows 8.1. nothing changed. Issue is still current.

 

Hi, Just read your thread on desktop icons disappearing after re-booting. I've just upgraded to windows 10 and had a similar problem - all previous desktop icons disappeared. Decided to do what you did - ie look in settings to see if tablet mode was on/off. It was on so turned it off. Bingo! Desktop icons reappeared. I also could not previously minimise a window down. That's solved as well. Thanks a lot!!