My computer seems to have forgotten the last 2 years +. He welcomed me to my new Dell this morning.

I downloaded programs are listed as coming out on my hard drive, but most of them will not work (you can double click on them but nothing happens).

All my favorites are gone, my image of the desktop shortcuts on my desktop, my music library - all gone.

Why? How?

So should I start over?  I would say that 85% of the stuff that I seem to have lost was not backed up. (I guess I learned my lesson)

Help, please.

Thanks again.

I don't know how, but my computer behaves normally.  For the time being.

I will absolutely go on the suggestions you offer because now I'm a little paranoid that it could happen again.  The first thing I did was to create a restore point: If if my computer has forgotten who I am and what we do for 2 years, I have little confidence it will me humor by remembering a restore point.

If you're curious, I rebooted this safe but when mode with the option of fixing my computer immediately the bat, I chose that.  Asked me to log in as an administrator, but it did not recognize my password.  I tried to log in under the other two profiles, but none of the passwords (the correct password, I wasn't guessing) have been recognized.  Finally, the system gave to my never be able to give the password so he wanted the window closed, and I was introduced to the usual start with the usual 3 Profiles screen.  I logged in that I normally use and! Hey presto! everything was back to normal.

I'm not lying or mistaken when I say that the first thing I did when the problem occurred was to log on as a different user because I assumed that I had signed in under a different profile.  I logged in again under the correct profile, but everything was gone.

I find it incredibly mysterious.

But thank you a thousand times for having given me so many great tips.

See you soon,.
Kate

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