Automated Windows 10 updates deleted all my documents and files

Garbage. 

All of my files have been deleted. Will be getting rid of Windows and switching to Apple. I shouldn't have to be worried that a stupid update is going to delete all of my assignments.

Everyone, go to THIS PC, then go to WINDOWS, then go to USERS, then go to the folder under your computer name. All your files are there. Cut everything there and paste it where it originally was. You'll be fine. Once that is done, you might be searching for random files through search and it would say no item found, so go to search then click on run then type in services.msc and enter, once you do that, search for windows search, it would probably show automatic delayed start, so click on windows search and change the automatic delayed start to automatic. Once done exit and right click on windows start and click on refresh. Everything would be searchable again

Thanks.  Followed THIS PC, then WINDOWS, then USERS and my user ID, but found DOCUMENTS was empty.  However, below that was ONE DRIVE, which had another DOCUMENTS folder that had all of my document files. 

Before the update hit, there was ONE DRIVE access at the top of my FILE EXPLORER screen, but that location was deleted by the update.  Update also emptied my task bar, and re-pinned links to Outlook and One Drive do not work (error messages).  All favorites on Microsoft Edge have been deleted, and all of the 35+ custom commands on my Access Toolbar for both Word and Excel (on which I rely heavily for work) must be restored.  Going forward, I'm keeping all of my Favorites links on an Excel spreadsheet saved to a data stick, along with a reminder list of what I use on the Access Toolbars. 

What a pain all this is.  Windows updates used to always keep all this stuff in place.  Now I'm back to keeping everything on data sticks - its like returning to the old floppy disk days of the 1990's !

I am in a state of shock. I was already using windows 10 and last night automated updates started without allowing me to stop them. This morning my computer is cleaned out with all thosevery important document deleted!!! Microsoft can do that??? How can I recover them ALL?????

John

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I am in the same state of shock!  All my Word documents are gone after this update!!!

Are you &#$%ing kidding?!?

I just had your garbage operating system 'update' automatically and it wiped my machine, 150 GBs of music and other files and now you tell me that I'm supposed to have backed up!?

And this is because I didn't continue with a sign in on a temporary profile?!?!

Na-ah! NOT on me you Microsoft morons.

How incompetent are you fools?!

I was supposed to have known this?!?! I was literally on the phone to my buddy who I used to work for 25 years ago in the IT industry telling him about this, except that I had discovered my files on the "old.windows' folder, so no problem, (but had clicked out of the sign-in crap, because I didn't have any stinking microsoft sign in account, figuring I'll move everything back after the phone call.) Went down stairs to speak to him on the phone, hung up, came back up and checked my machine and your crap OS wiped my disk!?!?

This is beyond reproach. Millions of poeple--else why am I the only one that this happened to, and why--must have had this happen. Except it didn't upgrade my other laptop. Why?!?

And you people just get away with this? "Restore from a backup."? I've run MACS for decades and NEVER EVER EVA EVERERER seen this happen.

Why would you write a software upgrade that had any possibility of doing this whatso-@#$%ing ever?

YOU ought to be sued so far back into the technological stone-age, you'd think smoke signals were state-of-the-art communication.

I"m done with you ****^&*(S. DONE I'm gonna move to Linux. @#$% That! I'm gonna spend the money on a mac.

I am so ******* sick of these forced updated on Windows 10.  Last night I received that an update was ready to be installed.  I clicked to postpone installation of the update and put my PC into hibernation.  I woke up today to see that my PC was restarted and update installed.  I HAVE LOST ALL MY DOCUMENTS AND HISTORY AND THE OPTIONS TO SYNC ACCOUNT ETC ARE NOT WORKING.  I have urgent work to do on my laptop and do not have time to spend trying to recover my documents.