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Lost Permissions, Shortcuts, Thumbnails, etc...
So my PC is behaving very strangely. It all started when I accidentally, permanently deleted some video clips I didn't mean to delete. I shut down the PC, removed the hard drive, and installed it into another, Windows 7 PC, as a secondary HDD. I used EaseUS data recovery wizard. Unfortunately It was not able to recover the files.
While I was on the windows 7 PC I attempted to view my user/appdata folder, for the win10 drive, which then proceeded to ask for permission which I granted. A window popped up showing the progress, but it was taking forever so I force closed it. I don't know if this paragraph has anything to do with the issue, but I wanted to be thorough.
So I gave up trying to recover the video and put the win10 HDD back into the original system. It booted up fine, but when I got the the desktop none of the shortcuts would work and the files there were denied permission. This PC, Network, Control Panel, etc. all worked fine. I could access folders normally, but images and text documents were all access denied. My pinned task bar items were all broken, but my pinned start menu items worked. Task bar items point to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar instead of the file location. I was able to repair one by re-pinning it. I could create a new document on the desktop and was able to access it. Some programs will not run either. Photoshop runs into a runtime error, and Premiere runs fine, but is missing all my recent files. Chrome's extension icons are replaced by the default puzzle piece icon. Calculator, Alarms & Clock, Windows Store, and Voice Recorder all fail to start, but the snipping tool works fine. The "File Explorer" button just above Settings, Power, and All Apps also does not work.
After a bit of poking around I've found that the all the files that are denied are within my User folder. Anything in the C: directories outside of Users opens and works just fine. Please help me
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