All desktop files were deleted after windows update, please help!

iColm

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I updated my PC, a small one to the best of my knowledge (still running windows 8.1) and after the restart all my desktop files are gone, the folders were left but with nothing left in them.

I ran AVG antivirus, made sure the icons weren't hidden and restarted a few times, but the files simply aren't there, I looked for them in windows explorer and they still didn't show up.

All my programmes are still there, and all my steam games & music.

Please help, there were some files that I'd rather not lose... anything would be appreciated,

Thanks in advance,
Colm
 
Solution
Run Recuva on it and see if it can find any of the files.

ALWAYS DO A BACKUP for windows 10 upgrades. I have not dealt with any upgrade issues but i have heard many stories.

BlueFireZ

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Something similar happened to me when I updated from Win 7 to Win 10. Every file disappeared but the programs remained, but they all came back after about 5 hours after, I have no idea how or why but they came back but I'm happy.
 

iColm

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I'm just going to hope the same happens for me...

So they just came back, was this after a few restarts or what?