Re: Weird Windows 8.1 issue (advice needed)

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yes, it's 8.1. Believe, I would have known if it was an automatic Win 10
upgrade (been there, done that on wife's system).

I suspect something obliterated my user AppData subfolder structure. All
signs point to that. Fortunately, I'm backed up.

But how in the world did a simple reboot choose to do that all on its own?

Chris Morton



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On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> You looked at the System control panel to verify that it's still 8.1?
>
> That sounds like what happens when Windows creates a new profile. Look
> in C:\Users.
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > Yet now my entire personal GUI is mostly different. Gone are a number of
> > items from my Desktop. File Explorer has taken on a different appearance.
> > Items I put on my Taskbar are missing.
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