The original user profile on my windows 8.1 pc is C:\Apple\acer sm. I tried changing it to C:\Apple\Apple. After I rebooted my PC, I found out that all my files and applications are lost. What shall I do to recover them?

Your help would save my life. Thank you!

Hi AppleMist,

We wonder if you changed the registry entry or path of user profile.

If you did that in registry please try changing it back.

After changing your user profile and reboot, system wont read the profile you changed but a new user profile (C:\Apple\acer sm or TEMP) should be created by system. Try renaming this new one as acer sm.old and changing the apple back to acer sm.

It should works fine if you didnt change file in profile, if it doesnt work perform a system restore.

Regards

D. Wu