Windows 10: Half of my desktop icons have disappeared and all of my downloads and other PC files are gone.

Hi there,


I woke up this morning to my computer being on, which was odd because I know I had turned it off safely and correctly the night before. I don't think anything of it and figure we may have lost power because of a storm, get up and open up the computer to everything being fine. Nothing is missing. I shut down the computer normally and leave my room. Come back not even an hour later and turn my computer back on and it's showing me a blank user icon with a stock wallpaper. I was confused but it allowed me to sign in with my password so I get in and am met with the basic windows 10 wallpaper, half of my desktop icons deleted, and an almost empty taskbar. All my display settings had been set to default and my download, pictures, desktop, almost entire library is empty. I let it be and restarted it a few times...nothing. I started getting all my stuff re downloaded and everything was looking to be better, just empty. Tried a system recovery, thought that would work and tried to go back a few days to when everything was working but it gave me errors three times and sent me right back to square one, empty files with half my game icons gone. Someone please help, i lost so much school work and I am an online student and can't afford to be TOO late on my assignments.


Thank you for your time.

:)

 

Desktop icons disappear in lower half of screen

What do you use to get this group of icons at the top of the screen?





Maybe it is interfering with displaying the desktop icons? Tried turning it off?

 

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Desktop Icons disappeared

Hi Kinsley,

• Are you referring to the desktop icons?
• When did the icons disappear? Did you make any changes to the system Settings?

It's possible that your device is in Tablet mode. I suggest you to turn it off and check if the icons appear. To do so, select the
Action center icon on the taskbar (the little message box next to the date and time), and then select
Tablet mode to turn it on or off.

Also refer the following thread which discusses about a similar issue.

Windows 10 - Desktop icons disappeared - I may have hit something that is causing my problem

Hope this helps. Keep us updated with the status of the issue to continue assisting you further.

Thank you.