Solved Desktop dissapeared and can't access my Outlook account

[Exorant]

Hello,

Today I opened my laptop, I tried to open my Outlook and it prompted me for a password (it never did that before). I restarted my laptop , and after the restart I lost all my desktop icons (I now have on desktop some icons I never had before), all my taskbar quick access icons and when I tried to open Outlook it prompted me to configure it as if I didn't have an account configured.

If anyone can help me with this problem I'd appreciate it.
Thank you.

 

[MilesAhead]

If you have a Restore Point from just before this happened try using it.

 

[Exorant]

Unfortunatelly I have no backup. Strange thing is that all my desktop items can be found in C:/User/Username/Desktop (there is only 1 user on my laptop)

 

[MilesAhead]

Right. There's a desktop for each user and one in Public for all users(as in when you do an install for all users.)

Especially a Laptop is bound to encounter corrupted files. You should at least enable System Restore. Otherwise it's all just hoping you stay lucky.

 

[Sir George]

Hello,

Today I opened my laptop, I tried to open my Outlook and it prompted me for a password (it never did that before). I restarted my laptop , and after the restart I lost all my desktop icons (I now have on desktop some icons I never had before), all my taskbar quick access icons and when I tried to open Outlook it prompted me to configure it as if I didn't have an account configured.

If anyone can help me with this problem I'd appreciate it.
Thank you.

Have you checked for any virus or malware infections?

 

[Jacee]

Download and run "Unhide" http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/unhide.exe

Run a full anti-virus scan.

 

[Exorant]

It seems it was just an error that was switching my profile with the TEMP profile.
The solution from here worked for me.

 

[MilesAhead]

It seems it was just an error that was switching my profile with the TEMP profile.
The solution from here worked for me.

Thanks for posting the fix.