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  My screen shows Microsoft Apps only

  Posted by passepartout on 10/18/2020 at 10:40 AM

  Hi
  Just updated Windows 10. All my links on my computer screen have been replaced by 5 Windows apps.
  My task bar is gone where i could access my files. There is now a taskbar button on screen that is not populated.
  What to do to regain my old computer screen?
  Thank you.

  TeamKomandoJohn replied 5 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply

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  TeamKomandoJohn

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  10/20/2020 at 11:53 AM

  Hello Passepartout,

  If you recently performed an upgrade you can try digging out your old shortcuts in the windows.old folder in the c:\
  You can take a look here to see where those shortcuts are traditionally stored. You should be able to dig them out of the location such as C:\windows.old\Users\(YourUsername)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

  You will have to show hidden files and folders when browsing to this data

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