Automatic Update deleted all my files!

Hide both of the updates.

HOW TO Hide an Update or Restore a Hidden Update

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/24376-windows-update-hide-restore-hidden-updates.html 

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (IE, Mail, Security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ Disclaimer: MS MVPs neither represent nor work for Microsoft

Please think about what you're telling Dan, PA Bear....

YOU identifies two KN updates you THINK may be causing Dan's problem....

So, those updates are CLEARLY installed, yet you suggest Dan "hide" those updates.

Did you ever think that Dan, and so many other how have had Windows Update delete their files without a trace need to UNINSTALL those KB Updates?!

Doug

P. S. - Why, when Microsoft releases updates like these is it always the USER's FAULT?!!!!

Hey! The automatic Windows update did the same to my Asus! All of my personal documents/photos/files etc dissapeared and I was unable to locate them. I spoke with two ITs, which got me nowhere. I tried several times to restart my laptop, use the "Recovery" feature. I even attempted to undo the update- all to no avail. Three frustrating days consumed with hopelessness  ensued.

But then.

I had an idea that I was sure wouldn't work; I simply enabled the "Guest" User Account(Control Panel>Users) and restarted my laptop.

And KABAMM!!!!

Everything was back to normal- all my files were exactly where I had left them and we finally accomplished world peace

I don't know if your issue is similar, but worth a shot...

The same thing just happened to me. This is the second time in a row Windows has installed an automatic update and when my computer rebooted everything was either deleted or moved to a different user folder...System restore won't help me either and last time this happened I changed my desktop background and added a few files to my folders and then shut down my computer like normal, when I turned it back on the files I just added were gone and background was back to the generic one...This is very weird and frustrating! Thankfully my really important stuff was backed up on an external hard drive but I am working on some designs for a job interview and I can not deal with this!

To avoid confusion & duplication of effort, please post any/all further follow-up in replies to your original thread => http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/my-problem-is-i-have-noticed-lately-that-every/747260b2-7908-4f27-84cb-f2d8f6bd5311

hi famdebo

the same thing happened to me twice after  automatic update was completed and  when i started my computer  two days later .on starting my computer i received a message telling me that the system is unable to start my computer and this problem will be fixed if the system is restored to a previous point, and this problem is being fixed .the problem was fixed through restoring the system to a previous point but i think the automatic update has something to do with this problem, so i cancelled automatic update  and will see the result . hope by doing so this problem will not happen again.