
Our goal in this section is not to show you how to accomplish specific search tasks but to help you discover what search is capable of accomplishing for you. The results that show up in the search box are delivered by online services that are constantly improving, as are the Windows features you use to make those requests. If you recently upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, sorry about this it’s just par for the course.We start this section with a disclaimer: Search, as a Windows 10 feature and as an online service, is evolving at breathtaking speed. One user writes “Count yourself lucky to have a temporary account. My Surface Pro 7 lost everything, as it's gone and there are no extra user accounts. It will take two days to put it back to something I might want to use.” Others are echoing this specific issue on the Microsoft Answers forum. Uninstalled the update and my data is still missing, I cannot find it anywhere,” wrote one frustrated Windows 10 user. “My desktop is black, icons are gone, Taskbar and Start menu are also empty.

A newer report by Windows Latest cites multiple users in their comments section complaining that the data is nowhere to be found and allegedly not recoverable. The KB4532693 update is allegedly causing much more serious headaches for some users.

Based on a cursory search, it’s recurring problem that’s been popping up for years. There’s nothing to accurately gauge how widespread this missing profile bug is, but the issue itself is nothing new. The site also states Microsoft is aware of the issue and is investigating. Bleeping Computer, however, is also reporting that several readers resolved the issue by rebooting “several times” or just uninstalling the troublesome KB4532693 update.
