Remove anytime upgrade in Windows vista

Yesterday I installed windows anytime upgrade provided with my pc and now all my programs are gone.  My office is balnk except for a couple of windows icons.  I lost all my files, my music... my programs I had installed as my Norton 360 I just renewed. I thought that improvements only the settings of your computer has better not take them and uninstall things.  What happened and how can I recover my computer. ?  can I uninstall this upgrade?  that he will correct?  I did a restore of what I thought, that was before I installed this upgrade, but it changed nothing.  Maybe the restoration was not enough back away.  I took it only to what I thought, it was earlier in the day.  I would like to make a disk backup that back up my Norton did July 5 can I use it to recover my files and if so how can I go about it.  How can I fix this mess?   Help, please.   Thank you.  * E-mail address is removed from the privacy *

Hello

you need to ask any questions about the use of their software Norton

you don't say how you did the upgrade

He would like to seeme you did a clean installation

and a restore point is not to uninstall an upgrade of the operating system

see if this helps you recover your data and the previous version of vista:

Read also:

Since we don't know exactly how you installed it seek a windows.old folder

How to restore your personal files after you perform a custom Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932912

or even return to a previous operating system by using the information in file window.old at the link below

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/933168

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