I need a computer expert to help me. I am running windows 7. This morning when I turned it on it ran updates. When it finished and booted up I did not recognize a thing. All my documents, pictures, video's, several important programs all vanished. The folders were all empty. It got rid of my browser and gave me IE and Google Chrome. It kept my virus program and printer but it was starting me from scratch as if it was a brand new computer.
I was sick because I lost my accounting program where I keep all my plant business records which represented hours of work. I was scared to do anything in case I made it worse. Finally I decided to do a system restore and it worked. But now I'm afraid to shut it down in case it does the same thing and then refuses to do another restore.
Does anyone have answers as to what happened and what I can do to prevent it from happening again. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. It reminded me of when you set it up with more than one user and each user can have what they want and others can not see it but that's not the case here. There is only one user on this computer.