Windows 10: How do I restore my Desktop look and settings

After trying to get too Familiar with Win10 and my new HP Pavilion Laptop (2wks ago), I now find I've lost my Desktop look and settings.

This has happened about 5hrs ago, initially I did not require a password at Start-up then after a little familiarizing ''finger poking'' I discovered that I then had to use one, my Microsoft Account.. outlook.com.. password !?
On trying to get rid of this process, is when things started to go down hill and now I find all looks as it did 2wks ago't when I walked away from PC World. So please Help - don't really want to make a bigger mess of things

Ahaa ! Restore Points - now this sounds an option I could cope with, is there such a facility with Win10...Joe

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What can I do to restore my desktop, settings and files when a Microsoft update last night just wiped everything away?

Microsoft update wiped my computer clean of all personnel files etc. tried to restore to march 29 2018 and I get is error0x80070005 wth

 

What can I do to restore my desktop, settings and files when a Microsoft update last night just wiped everything away?

Last night I restarted my computer and without my knowledge Microsoft performed an update which wiped everything off my desktop, changed all my settings back to neutral, took my email away, signed me out of applications I was using like Chrome. Normally
these updates are done when I hit Restart and Update. I did not. I specifically hit just Restart, knowing Updates takes longer and I was in the middle of doing my college course work.

I am able to get to my old files by going into my system, looking for User, clicking on my name, and then clicking on old desktop and files. Annoying to say the least. If you are going to do an update, you at least need to program it to put it back to the
way it was for the user.

Finally, I need help with getting my system restored or getting my desktop to look like it was before. And then getting my email back. Right now when I click on the email icon, it tries to walk me through the very original setup as if I just bought the computer.

Thank you for your time, consideration and hopefully answers.

 

Try this:

How to Refresh Windows 10

 

Hj Private

Thanks for the reply - but did discover there was a restore point and managed to restore system settings to 31 Jan but not sure of this date - I'm a bit hesitant to find this restore date in case I cock things up gain, is there a way I can check this without upsetting things again so I can make a note of it - Have not been very lucky of late with computers - finger poking - am using my desktop at the moment and have had Backup issues with this again finger poking but now sorted, for a while at least...Joe

 

I was going to recommend Sys Restore (if it worked! lol)

There's a few other programs out there which are better for this. I prefer to use Rollback Rx, I've used it to restore back a few months every so often. I used Shadow Defender for a while that may be good for maintaining that state but imo I like the ability to restore to other points.

 

Use this tutorial to do system restore
System Restore Windows 10

 

Before you poking something, create a restore point first. If something went wrong, use that restore point. If you want to poke again, create another one and so on so on.