Hi.
I am back for about an hour, then gone for the evening. I'd like to meet you for coffee tomorrow morning, but I'm afraid I am not available until about 9am.
(and, that's not because I'm sleeping in!)
Well that's too bad, but maybe I'll try to sleep in until then.
Okay, we can't go This PC>Desktop, because that's like a phantom pointer.
The Desktop icon in Default Users looks correct - the icon is normally only a yellow file folder, and not the familiar blue Desktop icon at that location.
You set a restore point, right?
Yes
[You may or may not have to uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files" for this next bit.]
Please try going here (in the new user account you created):
This PC>Calamity (C:)>Users>Gomer>AppData>Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\#!002\MicrosoftEdge \Cookies
I only get this far:This PC>Calamity (C:)>Users>Gomer>AppData>Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC and then Temp and nothing else
I also tried Calamity (C:)>Users>[Username]>AppData>Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\#!002\MicrosoftEdge\ and then there is only User\Default
Then I unhid the protected operating system files and tried again and Bingo!!!
Calamity (C:)>Users>[username]>AppData>Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\#!002\MicrosoftEdge\Cookies\contain er.dat
Open the Cookies folder by double-clicking on it. If Cookies is indeed in this location, is the Desktop folder inside it? If so, is it the familiar blue Desktop icon there?
If it's not there, can you find it by looking in the same location under your main user account? If we can't find it that way, we'll have to try another method. I need to know the exact path to the Desktop folder.
Tomorrow is fine. Have lots of coffee ready for me!