There are too many areas to dive into on this one. That is, browsers and many apps can have settings to forget on exit.
I'd make a new user account and re-test this there.
To better describe "forgets stuff": Only certain desktop files remain on the desktop, all other desktop files are erased from the desktop (even though they are still in my Local C File). Google Chrome, TeamSpeak, Xsplit Broadcaster, all my games...they do not recognize that I have used their program before. I have to re-accept terms of usage even. For my broadcasting program, it doesn't remember any of my saved files, so I'm currently forced to set up my presentation every single day (because this happens even if my PC sleeps). I have been searching for results over the past 3 days and have found nothing. Does anyone know what I can do?

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