Windows 8 almost everything has disappeared

I turned on the computer, on Wednesday morning, to find all kinds.  What follows has apparently disappeared:

-all the desktop icons;

-all applications (the start menu is empty)

-all the user files; all program files;

-under control panel, each option says there is "no items to display", which includes programs.

When I go to the file Explorer everything is white under the desktop, downloads, recent locations. This PC and libraries.  YET, under user name Network\my, I can find all my document files (no files) but am unable to open them.

I can always access chrome, explore and Skype in the taskbar, for some reason any.  Anything else will not work.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks for the details.  This could mean that the file association is poorly defined in the registry, if the system does not know what steps to take when you double-click.

Can try you right click and choose 'Open' or 'open in a new window' to see if it shows anything this way?

If this isn't the case, we will try the method of BACK to see if we can access those files.  Open a command prompt in the folder, and then type the command like this:

beginning

For example, if I was in my c:\users\skeene folder, I could type start documents to open documents and reach the files.

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