Windows 10: Disabling the Windows 10 Auto-destruct feature?

I've been on Windows 10 for nearly two weeks. I turned my back on it this morning, and when I returned in an hour it had done something which:

• Restored Windows setting almost to a clean install state (some video settings survived)
• Regresses an update to Google Chrome from three days ago
• Lost all of my Google settings; Chrome Browser/Gmail/etc.
• Lost all my Chrome Bookmarks
• Myriad other settings/regressions, which will take me months to recover (some that date back to Windows 95)

I took a restore point yesterday, but I can't find out how to do a restore. I expect that my restore points will have been wiped out.
But if someone could tell me where to find the mechanism that allows me to fall back to a previous restore point, that would be my next step.

:)

 

Rearranging picture order in Windows 7 and Windows 10

The developers removed the Auto-Arrange option in Windows 7. Either of these third party fixes will add it back so you can disable it.

How to Disable Auto Arrange in Folders in Windows 7? - The Winhelponline Blog

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-auto-arrange-folders-windows-7/

Windows 7 - Windows Explorer Auto Arrange - Disable

Windows Explorer Auto Arrange - Disable - Windows 7 Help Forums

For Win10:

Auto Arrange in Folders - Enable or Disable in Windows 10

Enable or Disable Auto Arrange in Folders in Windows 10

Or:

How to Disable Full Row Select and Auto Arrange in Windows 10?

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-auto-arrange-folders-windows-10/

 

rearranging files within folders? WIndows 10

This started with Windows 7. You need to add Auto Arrange so you can disable it.

Take your pick.

Auto Arrange in Folders - Enable or Disable in Windows 10

Enable or Disable Auto Arrange in Folders in Windows 10

Or:

How to Disable Full Row Select and Auto Arrange in Windows 10?

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-auto-arrange-folders-windows-10/

 

This sounds like your User Profile became corrupted and Windows loaded the Default user profile. Your Chrome settings are under your User Profile.
Browse to C:\Users\[YourUserName] and see if your files are there. If you downloaded the Anniversary Update then your files will be in C:\Windows.old\Users\]YourUserName]. Please drag and drop or copy and paste them from there to your User Profile

 

Well, I managed to find System Restore, and restored to about 16:00 yesterday.

Miraculously, I'm back where I was yesterday (yes, I know this is precisely what System Restore is supposed to do)

I had to logon when I got back to my PC (after "The Incident"). I'm wondering if I accidentally chose the wrong userid? My userids carry the same password, so I wouldn't have been alerted by "Wrong Password" prompts.

Is there any way to see the history of logon/logoff events? It has to be easy, and I'm rather addled at the moment!

 

Go to Start/Search and type Event Viewer and press Enter. Expand Windows Logs/Security look to the far right for Logon

 

Mea Culpa...

Amongst the logons, they were mostly for userid "Steve", but I also found a few for userid "" (my emergency userid for use only when I cannot logon as "Steve").

Of course, this emergency userid is just a skeleton, and has seen absolutely minimal tailoring since I created it.

I think I'll change the desktop background for my "" to an image that just displays "This is userid " and place the image somewhere that only the userid can access...